Jim West On Chess: Washington Avenue Tourney, Spring 2015

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Washington Avenue Tourney, Spring 2015

[mural by art teacher Kenji Hasegawa]

On Monday, the spring 2015 session concluded at Washington Avenue School in the after school enrichment class on chess, coached by me on behalf of Enrich and Grow Academy.

As happened in the winter 2015 session, the top three finishers in the tournament were Liam Kirby (first), Kiernan Smith (second), and Chloe Thorn Leeson (third). They were rewarded with certificates.

Medals were distributed 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