Jim West On Chess: Tournament Results at Harrison School

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Tournament Results at Harrison School

Yesterday the winter session ended at Harrison Elementary School, in the after school enrichment class on chess, coached by me through Enrich and Grow Academy.

Jeremy Luo won the tournament with a perfect score. Drew Weinroth was awarded second place on tie-breaks over Anvay Sur who finished third. All three received medals.

Prizes of chess books were given to Ming Ma, Amy Li, Johann Zhang, Sophia Shkolnikova, and Nicholas Reyes.

"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