Jim West On Chess: Pix from 2010 Liberty Bell Open

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Pix from 2010 Liberty Bell Open

During the Liberty Bell Open, held at the Sheraton City Center Hotel in Philadelphia, I found time to snap these photos. The first two show chess bloggers Atomic Patzer and Castling Queen Side respectively. Then there are various pictures of the lobby, sports bar, and tournament rooms.

"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