Jim West On Chess: Adults Only FIDE Weekends at DOCA

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Adults Only FIDE Weekends at DOCA

International master Dean Ippolito plans to run a series of adults only FIDE weekend Swiss events.

The first one is set for the weekend of August 3-4.

Dean is hoping to give adults a chance to play FIDE rated, professional events with players only 18 and up.

If this is successful, he will run them every month.

"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