Jim West On Chess: Severe Case of "Asp"erger's for NJKO

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Severe Case of "Asp"erger's for NJKO

In week three of the PRO Chess League, the Carolina Cobras were kings of the "hood" in their match against the New Jersey Knockouts.

National master Joshua Mu used a Wing Gambit formation to wriggle past grandmaster Alexander Stripunsky.

"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