Jim West On Chess: Tourney Results at Collins Elementary School

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tourney Results at Collins Elementary School

The spring session of the chess class, at Collins Elementary School in Livingston, ended yesterday. This after school enrichment class was run by Enrich and Grow Academy, and coached by me.

Of the fifteen students in the class, three received medals in the tournament that was held over the final weeks. Andrew Dai won the event, while Jessica Furman finished second. Daniel Siegal and Joseph Arena tied for third place, with the medal being awarded to Daniel Siegal on tie-breaks.

"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