Jim West On Chess: Pix from Westfield Quads 5/31/2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Pix from Westfield Quads 5/31/2009

Among the participants, captured on camera by me, in Sunday's quads at Westfield were NM Boris Privman, NM Pete Radomskyj [wallet in hand], Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero, candidate master Sam Barsky, and my chess student Ziping Liu. As a former resident of Indiana, Ziping is a fan of the Purdue Boilermakers.

"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