Jim West On Chess: Ironia School Tourney Results, Fall 2014

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Ironia School Tourney Results, Fall 2014

On Wednesday, the final class of the fall 2014 session took place at Ironia Elementary School, in the after school enrichment program on chess, coached by me for Enrich and Grow Academy.

Alexander Winans won the tournament, followed by Jason Weiss and Joshua Freiheiter in second and third places respectively.

Certificates were awarded to the top three players, along with chess medals that were given to all eleven students.

"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