Jim West On Chess: GM Robert Hess to Lecture at Marshall CC

Thursday, May 14, 2009

GM Robert Hess to Lecture at Marshall CC

On Friday, May 29th, at the Marshall Chess Club, GM Robert Hess will give a lecture at 7pm on one of his recent games from the Foxwoods tournament, where he won his final grandmaster norm.

The lecture is open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

"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