Jim West On Chess: Krakens All Wet versus Knockouts

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Krakens All Wet versus Knockouts

In round one of the PRO Chess League's inaugural season, the New Jersey Knockouts handed the Buenos Aires Krakens a monstrous defeat.

In this game, IM Ernesto Real De Azua could not keep his head above water against GM Alex Fishbein.

"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