Jim West On Chess: Spring Viking Deluxe GP

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Spring Viking Deluxe GP

Breaking through with his queenside pawns, international master Dean Ippolito won a king-and-pawn endgame against me on Sunday at the Spring Viking Deluxe grand prix event in Branchburg NJ. I resigned because of 43.f4 Kc6 when White is in zugzwang.

The playing site was the Dean of Chess Academy.

"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