Jim West On Chess: Kasparov to Review "Endgame"

Friday, February 4, 2011

Kasparov to Review "Endgame"

I look forward to Garry Kasparov's upcoming review of Endgame in The New York Review of Books.

Meanwhile, here is a review at Dana Blogs Chess.

Blogger Mark Weeks has used both editions of Frank Brady's Profile of a Prodigy to compile Bobby Fischer's best games.

"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