Jim West On Chess: Pix from Marshall July Grand Prix

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Pix from Marshall July Grand Prix

Last weekend, I photographed the players during the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

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"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