Jim West On Chess: Photos from Flemington Super Center

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Photos from Flemington Super Center

Earlier today I visited the new Dean of Chess Academy in Flemington where I played a rated match versus Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero, who is featured in some of these photos along with tournament director Noreen Davisson and her son Richard.

"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