Jim West On Chess: Kasparov's Lecture at Colgate University

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Kasparov's Lecture at Colgate University

[photo by Andy Daddio]

On April 9th, Garry Kasparov lectured at Colgate University on the differences between American democracy and the Putin regime in Russia. You can watch a video of the lecture by clicking on this link:
Garry Kasparov delivers lecture at Chapel

"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