Jim West On Chess: Ironia School Tourney Results, Winter 2015

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Ironia School Tourney Results, Winter 2015

On Wednesday, the winter 2015 session ended at Ironia Elementary School in the after school enrichment class on chess, taught by me for Enrich and Grow Academy.

The tournament finished in a first place tie between Juliette Jewusiak and Evelyn Matias. Third place went to Drew Hull.

Because the preprinted certificates did not allow for a tie, the first place certificate was awarded to Juliette, while Evelyn received the second place certificate plus the first place medal. Drew got the third place certificate.

Chess medals were handed out to all six 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