Jim West On Chess: By George! Knockouts Slay Dragons

Sunday, February 5, 2017

By George! Knockouts Slay Dragons

Despite a fire breathing effort by their "neighbors to the north", the New Jersey Knockouts defeated the Toronto Dragons in week four of the PRO Chess League.

International master Alexander Katz showed that the Scandinavian Defense can be a double edged sword in his draw against grandmaster Gergely-Andras-Gyula Szabo.

"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