Jim West On Chess: Boris Gulko Simul

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Boris Gulko Simul

According to blogger Chessbuff on Chess, New Jersey resident GM Boris Gulko has accepted an invitation to give a 30-board simul next Monday, April 14th, at Dumont Chess Mates. The cost to play in the simul is $20, plus a $5 admission fee. For more information, contact club president Lawrence Constance at lacon1963@yahoo.com.

"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