Jim West On Chess: Photo & Article from 1990 Match

Friday, February 29, 2008

Photo & Article from 1990 Match

Speaking of the two K's, here is the photograph that I took of their chess board at the Hudson Theater in 1990.

It appeared in the February 1991 issue of Chess Life with this caption: "The 'Intelligent Chess Board' awaits the first move. Wire coils in each piece and sensors in the board report each move instantly to the spectators."

In the same issue, my article "On the Sidelines" was published.

"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