Jim West On Chess: E-mail from Gunter Hain

Friday, March 8, 2013

E-mail from Gunter Hain

On February 10th, I received this e-mail from a player rated FIDE 2019.

Hello.
I really like your blog, but will you find time to correct the diagrams in older posts?
Greetings from Germany.
Gunter Hain

Gunter is referring to ChessUp.

On January 14th, I e-mailed Trent Lucier, as follows.

Trent:
Will ChessUp ever be operational again?
Jim

To date, Trent has not replied to my e-mail.

"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