Jim West On Chess: 7 Grandmasters to Play in 2015 NJ Open

Friday, July 31, 2015

7 Grandmasters to Play in 2015 NJ Open

Joel Benjamin

Alexander Stripunsky

Michael Rohde

John Fedorowicz

Maxim Dlugy

Alexander Fishbein

Mackenzie Molner

The above seven grandmasters will be playing in the 2015 New Jersey Open.

"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