Jim West On Chess: Shongum School Tournament, Winter 2013

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Shongum School Tournament, Winter 2013

On Monday, the winter 2013 session ended at Shongum Elementary School in the after school enrichment program on chess, conducted by Enrich and Grow Academy and coached by me.

The medal winners in the tournament were Jesse Lissaur (first), Gilad Krasner-Cohen (second), and Jessie Hauryluke (third). Gilad received a chess book, as well.

Additional books were awarded to Carter Kielbania, Jake Barninger, Brady Hyland, and Brendan Stulak.

"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