Jim West On Chess: Overview of My Blog

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Overview of My Blog

With nearly 2,600 pageviews, a post dated January 1, 2007 on the exchange variation in the French Defense is my most popular by a wide margin.

In second place, with almost 800 pageviews, is a post dated July 26, 2007 on my Philidor Counter Gambit against Fabiano Caruana.

"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