Jim West On Chess: Boston versus New York

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Boston versus New York

In the sports world, the cities of Boston and New York are natural rivals. Tonight that rivalry carries over into the chess world as the Boston Blitz, who have draw odds, play the New York Knights in the postseason semifinals of the United States Chess League.

The Knights play their USCL matches via Internet at the Marshall Chess Club. Follow the action, starting at 7 o'clock, on the Internet Chess Club website.

"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