Jim West On Chess: DOCA Moving to Route 22

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

DOCA Moving to Route 22

In about 4 to 6 weeks, the Dean of Chess Academy will be moving to the ShopRite Plaza on Route 22 in Branchburg NJ.

The new building will be three times the size of the current one. This will enable DOCA to have more FIDE rated events, in addition to its league on Wednesday and Friday nights.

"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