Jim West On Chess: Marshall CC Championship 2003

Friday, May 2, 2008

Marshall CC Championship 2003

At http://www.chessgames.com/, there are several of my games from the Marshall Chess Club championship in December 2003. These include losses to Leonid Yudasin and Ed Kopiecki, a win against Leon Zukoff, and a draw against Frank Paciulli. As I recall, I took byes in the remaining rounds due to my work schedule.

"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