Jim West On Chess: "King's Gambit" Corrigenda

Friday, January 11, 2008

"King's Gambit" Corrigenda

Since I e-mailed the following correction on December 25th to Paul Hoffman's website http://paulhoffman.wordpress.com/kings-gambit-corrigenda/, no one else has unearthed any mistakes.

Before Chapter 6 [Anatomy of a Hustler], the correct quote from Sherlock Holmes is “Amberley excelled at chess…”, not “Amberley excelled in chess…”, as given. To confirm this, go to http://www.amk.ca/quotations/sherlock-holmes/page-11.

"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