Jim West On Chess: Pix from Cherry Street Open 9/20/2014

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Pix from Cherry Street Open 9/20/2014

At the Chess Mates blog, I have posted photos taken by me during the Cherry Street Open tournament.

National master Art Macaspac [pictured, right] scored the biggest upset by defeating international master Justin Sarkar [pictured, left].

"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