Jim West On Chess: Photos from ICA Fall 2009 Open

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Photos from ICA Fall 2009 Open

These three pix were taken by me on Sunday at the ICA Fall 2009 Open, in addition to the photos at the ICA website.

The players in the open section prepare for the first round, as TD Lawrence Constance speaks with a chess parent.

Andrew Ng defeated William Dubinsky, in round four.

After the tournament, blogger John MacArthur enters data into his laptop. MacArthur is flanked by two chess students who participated in the open or scholastic section.

"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