Jim West On Chess: Knockouts Sidestep Cobras in Wildcard Round

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Knockouts Sidestep Cobras in Wildcard Round

In the wildcard round of the United States Chess League, the match between the Carolina Cobras and the New Jersey Knockouts ended in a tie; but NJKO advanced to the quarterfinals by draw odds.

Beware of the venomous attacks 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