Jim West On Chess: Fat Lady Sings for NJKO vs. Sopranos

Friday, January 20, 2017

Fat Lady Sings for NJKO vs. Sopranos

In week two of the PRO Chess League, it was the same old song for the Montclair Sopranos as they won their second match in a row, this time against the New Jersey Knockouts.

It must have been music to Rozman's ears when Balakrishnan hung a rook on move 61, but the endgame was lost for Black in any event.

"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