Jim West On Chess: "The Kenilworthian" Wins CJA Award Again

Saturday, August 9, 2014

"The Kenilworthian" Wins CJA Award Again

Congratulations to Michael Goeller [pictured] of The Kenilworthian for winning yet another "Best Chess Blog" award from the Chess Journalists of America!

His blog also won in 2008 and 2010.

Of all the chess blogs, The Kenilworthian is the most scholarly.

"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