Jim West On Chess: Taghian to Lecture at Marshall CC

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Taghian to Lecture at Marshall CC

At 7:30pm, on Tuesday July 28th, senior life master Taghian Taghian will lecture at the Marshall Chess Club, in a series based on The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games. The two games being analyzed are Saemisch vs. Nimzowitsch, Copenhagen 1923 and Gruenfeld vs. Alekhine, Karlsbad 1923.

Taghian has been teaching adults and children for the last twenty years with a clear and precise style that has made him one of the most sought after teachers in New York City. His previous lecture on July 14th was a great success.

The lectures are free to adult players who are members, with a $10 fee to non-members.

"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