Jim West On Chess: Pix from Book Fair

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Pix from Book Fair

While the Marshall Chess Club November Open was being played downstairs on Sunday, the book fair was taking place upstairs.

At the top of the stairs, the bulletin board has advertisements and the list of club members.

This is the advertisement for the book fair.

Here is blogger Ed Gaillard of Der Alter Goniff.

FM Asa Hoffmann browsed through the thousands of chess books.

So did many others.

"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