Jim West On Chess: Harikrishna, Ehlvest Win NY International

Friday, June 25, 2010

Harikrishna, Ehlvest Win NY International

The New York International concluded on Tuesday, at the Marshall Chess Club, with grandmasters Pentala Harikrishna and Jaan Ehlvest sharing first place at 7 points. Here are the final standings.

"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