Jim West On Chess: Seniors Prize Plaque at West Orange CC

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Seniors Prize Plaque at West Orange CC

Last night, I visited the West Orange Chess Club where I photographed the Seniors prize plaque from the USATE 2016 being held by club president John Hagerty.

Then I took a picture of Charlie Hart who was the alternate on the Seniors prize winning team West Orange Krush.

Before leaving, I picked up my share of the Seniors prize - a North American digital clock.

"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