Jim West On Chess: Caro-Kann @ "Diamondback Chess"

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Caro-Kann @ "Diamondback Chess"

Using ChessFlash, blogger Diamondback has reproduced three of my games as White in the Exchange Variation of the Caro-Kann Defense. These games originally appeared in a previous blog post of mine. My win against Noah Siegel took place on 11/8/1995 at the Marshall Chess Club.

"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