Jim West On Chess: E-mail from Steve Hewlett

Monday, April 13, 2009

E-mail from Steve Hewlett

Yesterday I received this e-mail.

Mr. West:

At the end of your article "Alternatives to Alterman's PCG Analysis" on your web blog, you give three examples of games. However, they all say "This account has been suspended, please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible." Do you know where I could find these three games on the Internet? Thanks.

Steve Hewlett

I have reproduced the games at my Jim West Talks Chess blog.

"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