Jim West On Chess: No Knockout Punch for NJKO

Friday, October 10, 2008

No Knockout Punch for NJKO

Although they had their opponents on the ropes in a couple of games, the New Jersey Knockouts failed to deliver the knockout punch against the Queens Pioneers on Monday night, in the United States Chess League.

As a result, the match was drawn 2-2, leaving the NJKO tied for second place, a game behind the Pioneers in the eastern division.

"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