Jim West On Chess: Washington Avenue Tourney, Fall 2016

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Washington Avenue Tourney, Fall 2016

On Monday, the fall 2016 session concluded at Washington Avenue School in the after school enrichment class on chess, coached by me for AlphaBEST Explorations.

All seven students participated in the tournament, ending in a first place tie between Eliza Reed and Olive Yaun.

Gabriel Chellakumar finished third.

Medals were awarded to the top three players.

"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