Jim West On Chess: Pix from November Weekend FIDE

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Pix from November Weekend FIDE

During last weekend's tournament at the Marshall Chess Club, I photographed the players.

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"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