Jim West On Chess: New On-Line Site: "VelocityChess"

Thursday, August 8, 2013

New On-Line Site: "VelocityChess"

Jonathan Brody and Evan Ju are launching a new on-line site named VelocityChess.

Jonathan Brody grew up playing chess in the New York City parks before joining the international poker circuit.

FIDE master Evan Ju [pictured] is a former New Jersey state chess champion.

"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