Jim West On Chess: Averbakh Lecture at Marshall CC

Friday, May 16, 2008

Averbakh Lecture at Marshall CC

On Monday evening, May 19th, grandmaster Yuri Averbakh will give a lecture at the historic Marshall Chess Club in Greenwich Village.

Here is Averbakh's only game against Bobby Fischer, ending in an early draw even though Black appears to have an advantage in the final position after 21...Rae8.

"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