Jim West On Chess: Kasparov's Statement and Interview

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Kasparov's Statement and Interview

Yesterday Garry Kasparov and other opposition leaders met with Barack Obama in Moscow. Here are Kasparov's statement to the U.S. President and his interview after their meeting.

Kasparov also gave an interview to the Voice of America. You can download it here.

"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