Jim West On Chess: Rewind of Magnus Carlsen on "60 Minutes"

Monday, February 20, 2012

Rewind of Magnus Carlsen on "60 Minutes"

Last night, I got home from day 2 of the USATE expecting to watch a recording of Magnus Carlsen on 60 Minutes. I had set my DVR for 7pm to 8pm, but TV coverage of a golf tournament on CBS delayed the start of the news program. The Magnus Carlsen segment went unrecorded.

Here is a rewind.

"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