Jim West On Chess: Karl Dehmelt Wins DOCA Championship

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Karl Dehmelt Wins DOCA Championship

At the Dean of Chess Academy, FIDE masters Karl Dehmelt [pictured, right] and Steve Stoyko [pictured, left] tied for first place with 5.5 points, in the club championship.

Karl Dehmelt was awarded the championship mug on tie-breaks.

IM Dean Ippolito and Steve Ferrero tied for third place with 5 points.

"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