Jim West On Chess: Knights Stampede Past Knockouts

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Knights Stampede Past Knockouts

Week six of the PRO Chess League found the New Jersey Knockouts tilting at windmills in their match against the New York Knights.

Brandon Jacobson imagined that 3.Qe2 would exploit the weak link in GM Leonid Yudasin's armor, but the game ended abruptly when the white queen got trapped.

"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