Jim West On Chess: Erenburg Wins NJ Futurity 2008

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Erenburg Wins NJ Futurity 2008

For the second straight year, Sergey Erenburg has won the New Jersey Futurity International.

These pix of round 9 are provided to us, courtesy of Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero.

The first photo shows GM Sergey Erenburg versus IM Mikhail Zlotnikov, a game won by Erenburg. In the next picture, grandmasters Sam Palatnik and Leonid Yudasin play to a draw. The last photo captures the spectators watching NM Mackenzie Molner, as he draws against GM Jaan Ehlvest.

"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