Jim West On Chess: QC in NJ

Friday, November 7, 2008

QC in NJ

Tournament director Ken Thomas has been running a series of Grand Prix quick chess tournaments, at the Dean of Chess Academy in Branchburg. Here is Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero's account of the first one, held on October 19th.

Last Sunday's QC tournament was won by IM Dean Ippolito, with a perfect score of 7-0-0.

The Game 10's Galore #3 event is scheduled for November 30th.

"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