Jim West On Chess: USCL Championship Tonight

Monday, December 7, 2009

USCL Championship Tonight

Tonight the championship of the United States Chess League will be decided in a match between the Miami Sharks and the New York Knights. The Knights advanced by defeating the New Jersey Knockouts.

You can follow the action, starting at 7pm, on the Internet Chess Club.

"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