Jim West On Chess: Tourney Results at Shongum School

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Tourney Results at Shongum School

The spring session, in the after school chess program conducted by Enrich and Grow Academy and taught by me, ended yesterday at Shongum Elementary School in Randolph.

The tournament winners were Jesse Lissaur in first place, Gilad Krasner-Cohen in second, and Matthew Negrey in third. All three received medals.

"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