Jim West On Chess: Hulse Lecture Canceled Due to Hurricane

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Hulse Lecture Canceled Due to Hurricane

Last night, the Marshall Chess Club sent an e-mail advising that the lecture by FM Brian Hulse, scheduled for October 30th, has been "canceled and postponed to another date to be announced due to Hurricane Sandy which is expected to peak in the NYC area on Tuesday."

"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