Jim West On Chess: Adventurous Day at the Marshall CC

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Adventurous Day at the Marshall CC

At the Suffern Chess Club website, Louis Winokur writes about an adventurous day at the Marshall Chess Club. I was there, playing an international master on board two, when the firemen arrived. An announcement was made that "There's no need to panic," and more than 50 players continued their games!

"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