Jim West On Chess: Chess Carnival

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Chess Carnival

On Friday, I received an e-mail from Steve Owens who is hosting a chess carnival, scheduled for December 10th, at website http://blogcarnival.com/bc. As a blogger, I was invited to submit articles for inclusion in this blog carnival.

These are the posts that I submitted, arranged by categories: book reviews, opening theory, chess culture and politics, annotated games, humor, and chess events.

"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