Jim West On Chess: Knights Ride NJKO Out of Playoffs

Friday, November 9, 2012

Knights Ride NJKO Out of Playoffs

In week ten of the U.S. Chess League, the New Jersey Knockouts found themselves eliminated from the postseason after drawing their match against the New York Knights, who advanced to the eastern quarterfinals.

The games were played at full tilt on boards one, two, three, and four.

"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