Jim West On Chess: Photos from Marshall GM Norm Qualifier

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Photos from Marshall GM Norm Qualifier

These photos were taken by me on Sunday, during the Marshall GM Norm Qualifier tournament.

National master Oscar Maldonado drew against senior master Matthew Herman.

International master Akshat Chandra beat FIDE master Rotislav Taborsky.

FIDE master Leif Pressman defeated national master Alexander King.

"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