Jim West On Chess: Fajarowicz Feedback

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Fajarowicz Feedback

On Saturday, I had a conversation with the blogger Atomic Patzer at Cherry Hill where I played in the game/30 Swiss event while he played in the game/60 quads.

Before the tournament began, he mentioned that he had seen my blog post regarding the Fajarowicz Variation in the Budapest Defense. And as a result, he bought a used copy of Tim Harding's The Fighting Fajarowicz.

Black gets active piece play, even in the line where White answers 2...e5 with 3.d5.

"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