Jim West On Chess: Magnus Carlsen Retains Chess Title

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Magnus Carlsen Retains Chess Title

In The New York Times, FM Dylan McClain [pictured] has been following the 2021 world chess championship with these articles:

1) Magnus Inc.: The Business of Being World Chess Champion;

2) Did the World Chess Championship End When No One Was Looking?;

3) Magnus Carlsen Pounces on Rival's Mistake to Retain Chess Title.

"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