Jim West On Chess: October-December 2008 "ACN"

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

October-December 2008 "ACN"

In the October-December 2008 issue of Atlantic Chess News, you will find my book review on page 16, Lev Zilbermintz's analysis of the Newark Gambit on page 21, Terese and David W. Hatch's article and photos on pages 11-12, and Ken Calitri's commentary on page 17.

"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