Jim West On Chess: Snake Eyes for Cobras vs. Knockouts

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Snake Eyes for Cobras vs. Knockouts

In week four of the U.S. Chess League, the roll of the dice came out snake eyes for the Carolina Cobras, losing last night's match versus the New Jersey Knockouts.

The moves to the games (boards one, two, three, and four) can be seen here.

Read 'em and weep!

"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