Jim West On Chess: Collins School Tourney Results, Fall 2013

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Collins School Tourney Results, Fall 2013

Yesterday the fall 2013 session ended at Collins Elementary School, in the after school enrichment class on chess that I teach for Enrich and Grow Academy.

With 5 points, Alec Cotler won the tournament. Alec was trailed by Sam Israel, Max Kelner, Benjamin Laskov, and Daniel Wang - all with 4 points.

The nineteen students received copies of Chess Life and Chess Life for Kids magazines.

"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