Jim West On Chess: Spring Break Camp II at "Chess Mates"

Friday, April 20, 2012

Spring Break Camp II at "Chess Mates"

Last week, nine students attended Spring Break Camp I at Chess Mates in Rahway.

Because some schools have their spring breaks later in the month, Spring Break Camp II will take place during the week of April 23rd through April 27th. The instructors will be grandmaster Leonid Yudasin [pictured below] and owner Art Macaspac.

Fun activities include swimming at the YMCA, a block away from the chess club.

"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