Jim West On Chess: GM Rohde to Lecture at "Chess Mates"

Saturday, December 12, 2015

GM Rohde to Lecture at "Chess Mates"

Next Saturday, December 19th, Chess Mates will be hosting a lecture by grandmaster Michael Rohde on the Taimanov Sicilian before running the Thomas Elberling Memorial Swiss tournament.

The cost to view the lecture is $10 for Chess Mates members, $15 for non-members.

The lecture starts at 9am, and the tournament begins at 11am.

"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