Jim West On Chess: Stripunsky Wins New Yorker Open

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Stripunsky Wins New Yorker Open

With 6 points out of 7, grandmaster Alexander Stripunsky won the New Yorker Open.

The photo shows the top three boards in the final round. GM Mikheil Kekelidze lost to senior master Yaacov Norowitz, GM Alexander Stripunsky beat NM Adam Maltese, and GM Sergey Kudrin defeated candidate master George Tom.

"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