Jim West On Chess: Four Digital Clocks

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Four Digital Clocks

Vassar-Chadwick Chess Club president Craig W. Fisher PhD has sent an e-mail advising that the Seniors prize of four digital clocks arrived at his house yesterday and that he is in the process of shipping the clocks to the West Orange Chess Club.

In reply, West Orange Chess Club president John Hagerty wrote:

To Craig,

It would be nice if all problems in the world could be resolved in such a nice civilized manner. Just let me know the cost of shipping and I will reimburse you to your address. Maybe next year one of my teams will face you guys!

John

"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