Jim West On Chess: Jon Edwards to Lecture at Marshall CC

Friday, May 6, 2011

Jon Edwards to Lecture at Marshall CC

The Marshall Chess Club proudly presents

Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice

A talk and book-signing by Jon Edwards

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

7:30pm

In Sacking the Citadel, the author traces the classic bishop sacrifice on h2 (or h7) throughout chess history. First recorded by Italian chess master Gioachino Greco more than four hundred years ago, it has remained relevant ever since and continues to get reinterpreted by chess players of all levels.

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He became a Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. His ICCF rating of 2580 placed him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.

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"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