Jim West On Chess: SPICE Records Requested by USCF

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

SPICE Records Requested by USCF

The Avalanche-Journal of Lubbock is reporting that the USCF has filed a court request to obtain computer records from the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence to determine if Susan Polgar and Paul Truong leaked confidential e-mails from the Executive Board in June.

"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