Jim West On Chess: "VCN" On-line

Thursday, September 17, 2009

"VCN" On-line

For more than three years, the vachess.org website had not been keeping current its on-line index of newsletters. Earlier this month, the index was updated to include issues of Virginia Chess Newsletter from mid-2006 to the present.

At long last, I am able to see my article on the Philidor Counter Gambit in the 2006 #4 issue!

"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