Jim West On Chess: Chess Class @ eprof on August 23rd

Friday, June 27, 2014

Chess Class @ eprof on August 23rd

On Saturday morning, August 23rd, I am scheduled to give an on-line chess class for Columbia Academy at eprof.

The topic is the three Rules for the Opening: move your pieces toward the center, castle your king to safety, and move each piece only once.

"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