Jim West On Chess: Knights Score TKO against NJKO

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Knights Score TKO against NJKO

In the quarterfinals round of the U.S. Chess League, the match between the New Jersey Knockouts and the New York Knights ended in a technical knockout, with New Jersey being eliminated from the playoffs by draw odds.

With every game drawn, the players were pulling their punches on boards one, two, three, and four.

"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