Tomorrow, at the Marshall Chess Club, Pieter Bierkens will lecture on two victories by former world champion Max Euwe, from the 1953 candidates tournament in Zurich. This series is based on The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games.
Bierkens will analyzeGeller - Euweand Euwe - Najdorf. The lecture begins at 7:30pm and is free to club members ($10 non-members).
"Amberley excelled at chess - one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind." - Sherlock Holmes
"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position." - Marcel Duchamp
"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