Jim West On Chess: Photo Gallery from DOCA Quads 12/27/2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Photo Gallery from DOCA Quads 12/27/2009

Here are ten photos from Sunday's quads at the new Dean Of Chess Academy. I took the first three. The remaining seven were taken by Steve Ferrero and Dawn Ippolito, using Steve's camera. Meanwhile, Dean Ippolito was winning his first four games at the Eastern Open in Washington DC.

"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