Jim West On Chess: My Summer 2017 Teaching Schedule

Saturday, June 17, 2017

My Summer 2017 Teaching Schedule

This summer, I am scheduled to teach at two chess camps:

1) Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy (July 10th through July 13th) for AlphaBEST Explorations;

2) Hudson Montessori School (July 24th, July 31st, August 7th) for 101 Discoveries.

"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