Jim West On Chess: Results of Tournament at Lafayette School

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Results of Tournament at Lafayette School

The winter session of the after school chess program, run by Enrich and Grow Academy and taught by me, ended yesterday at Lafayette School in Chatham.

During the final classes, a chess tournament took place. The winner was Nathan Dean with a perfect score of 3 points. Brandon Judd took second place. Finishing third was Michael Chavez Bisch.

Medals were awarded to all three.

"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