Jim West On Chess: Tournament Results at Woodbrook School

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Tournament Results at Woodbrook School

[photo by Premalatha Bysani]

On Tuesday, the winter 2016 session concluded at Woodbrook Elementary School in the after school enrichment class on chess that I teach for Enrich and Grow Academy.

Amogh Bysani [pictured, left] and Devish Vaid finished the tournament in a tie for first place, ahead of Ishan Parmar in third and Srestha Mukherjee in fourth.

The top three players were awarded medals. All eight students received certificates.

Thanks to Amogh's mom Prema for the picture!

"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