Jim West On Chess: CK&Q Team Rated 2199.75 at USATE 2016

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

CK&Q Team Rated 2199.75 at USATE 2016

The West Orange Chess Club team with an average rating of 2199.75 will not be alone at the USATE 2016.

Chess Kings and Queens Academy is fielding a team with the same rating!

Their players are:

board 1) GM Magesh Panchanathan 2652;

board 2) FM Praveen Balakrishnan 2407;

board 3) Jonathan Chin 1888;

board 4) David Liu 1852.

"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