Jim West On Chess: E-mail from Howard Gutman

Saturday, March 9, 2019

E-mail from Howard Gutman

Yesterday I received this e-mail from class A player Howard Gutman.

Thank you for your interesting post on Vince Klemm [pictured]. I am sorry to report that Vince recently passed away. See https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/vincent-klemm-obituary?pid=191441629. I'd like to see if a small tournament could be named the Vince Klemm Memorial as a way of honoring him. Sadly he was tough to locate; and when I called USCF on another matter, they told me the sad news.

Howard Gutman

"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