Jim West On Chess: Howard Stern, Chess Master

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Howard Stern, Chess Master

As a follow-up to Sunday's blog post, here is a news flash from Howard Stern's website.

HOWARD THE CHESS MASTER

Marshall Chess Club President Dr. Frank Brady played two games against Howard over the weekend. Dr. Brady said, "He's a good player! I did win, but he held me right down to the end game. He's much better than he thinks he is." Dr. Brady said Howard has an open invitation to return.

"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