Jim West On Chess: Battle of Champions

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Battle of Champions

Tonight, a couple of 3-time U.S. champions square off when GM Joel Benjamin faces GM Larry Christiansen, in the United States Chess League.

You can follow the match between the New Jersey Knockouts and the Boston Blitz, on the Internet Chess Club website, starting at 7 o'clock.

"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