Jim West On Chess: Pix from NY September Open

Monday, September 15, 2008

Pix from NY September Open

I took these pictures during round three of yesterday's New York September Open at the Marshall Chess Club.

On board two, IM Alex Lenderman defeated Alex Ostrovskiy, with GM Leonid Yudasin on board one.

On board four, Mitch Fitzko lost a rook-and-pawn endgame to NM Yefim Treger.

"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