Jim West On Chess: Photos from Hamilton Quads 2/21/2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Photos from Hamilton Quads 2/21/2009

At Saturday's quads in Hamilton, the following photos were taken by me. You will find additional pix at the blog of Diamondback.

Below are a couple of shots showing the first round game in quad one between NM Dragan Milovanovic and David Grasso, followed by a photo of the third round contest between NM Mark Kernighan and Grasso. Lastly you will see the lower quads, in which Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero participated.

"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