Jim West On Chess: Kasparov on Dutch Television

Monday, January 14, 2008

Kasparov on Dutch Television

In an 90-minute program on Dutch television, Garry Kasparov discusses chess, politics, movies, opera, and soccer. Even though the introductory narrative is in Dutch, the interview is in English.

You can watch it here, but you must click on "bekijk uitzending".

"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