Jim West On Chess: 3-Way Tie for First at U.S. Open

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

3-Way Tie for First at U.S. Open

The United States Open chess tournament in Dallas ended in a three-way tie for first place. The winners were GM Alexander Shabalov, IM Rade Milovanovic, and IM Enrico Sevillano.

Rade Milovanovic is the brother of NM Dragan Milovanovic who plays often at the Hamilton quads in New Jersey.

"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