Jim West On Chess: Photos from Marshall December Grand Prix

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Photos from Marshall December Grand Prix

These photos were snapped by me on Sunday at the Marshall Chess Club.

You will see candidate master Nick Conticello, international master Renato Naranja, and FIDE master Asa Hoffmann, as well as the final round game between Ed Kopiecki and Jason Margiotta.

"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