Jim West On Chess: "Chess Movie" by Rescued Media

Saturday, January 30, 2010

"Chess Movie" by Rescued Media

In November, I received an e-mail from Katie Schulz who is directing and producing a documentary about the I.S. 318 chess team from Brooklyn NY. Katie's website is on my link list under Rescued Media. Below is a teaser from the film which has the working title Chess Movie.

CHESS MOVIE (working title) from Rescued Media on Vimeo.

The fund raising site is kickstarter.com.

"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