Jim West On Chess: Trick or Treat for NJKO

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Trick or Treat for NJKO

With a win tonight against the New York Knights in the final week of the regular season, the New Jersey Knockouts would be guaranteed of a playoff spot in the U.S. Chess League. Even a drawn match would keep NJKO's playoff hopes alive, but they would need help from other teams.

Earlier this season when these same two teams met, New Jersey emerged victorious over New York.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov