Jim West On Chess: Saturday Chess Class at Caldwell College

Friday, September 21, 2012

Saturday Chess Class at Caldwell College

Tomorrow morning, I am scheduled to teach my inaugural class for Columbia Academy. The chess lesson will take place at Caldwell College in Room 107 of Aquinas Hall, from 9:30am to 10:30am.

After briefly discussing piece values and the rules, I will move on to the general principles that need to be followed in the opening, middlegame, and endgame.

This first class is free for new students!

"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