Jim West On Chess: USATE 2011 Wrap-up

Monday, February 28, 2011

USATE 2011 Wrap-up

[photo by Polly Wright]

Pictured are the players on the winning team West Orange Krush at the U.S. Amateur Team East championship: Jose Fernandez, Pete Radomskyj, Victor Rosas, and Mikhail Zlotnikov.

The amateur team championships are the most popular tournaments of the year.

"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