Jim West On Chess: Good Weekend for 2 Chess Students

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Good Weekend for 2 Chess Students

Last weekend was a good one for two of my chess students.

Michael Berrios won his six player section at Dean of Chess Academy.

Vrithik Umapathy tied for first in his section at Princeton Day School. Then he won his quad at Westfield with a perfect score.

"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