Jim West On Chess: Bartell Simul in Kenilworth

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Bartell Simul in Kenilworth

Tonight, at 8:30, FIDE master and former NJ state champion Tommy Bartell will give a simultaneous exhibition at the Kenilworth Chess Club.

Earlier this month, at the 11th North American FIDE Invitational in Chicago, Bartell narrowly missed making an IM norm when he was upset in the final round. Michael Goeller at The Kenilworthian has analyzed a couple of Bartell's wins from the tournament.

"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