Jim West On Chess: Deja Vu for NJKO

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Deja Vu for NJKO

Last Halloween, the New Jersey Knockouts were eliminated from the USCL playoffs by the New York Knights in the final match of the regular season.

Tonight at 7:30, the NJKO will try to avoid the same fate when once again they face the Knights with a playoff spot at stake.

"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