Jim West On Chess: Hamilton Quads 7/14/2007

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Hamilton Quads 7/14/2007

At today's Hamilton Chess Club Quads, I competed in quad one where I finished at 1-1-1. The following is my best game.

Round One: Caro-Kann Defense

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Mark Kernighan (USCF 2200), Hamilton Quad 7/14/2007

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.Bf4 Qb6 7.Qc2 Bg4 8.Nd2 e6 9.Ngf3 Be7 10.O-O Nh5 11.Be3 g6 12.Rae1 Bf5 13.Bxf5 gxf5

14.Nc4 dxc4 15.d5 Qa6 16.dxc6 Qxc6 17.Nd4 Qd5 18.Qa4+ Kf8 19.Bh6+ Kg8 20.Qd1 Nf6 21.f3 Bf8 22.Qd2 Ne8 23.Qg5+ Bg7 24.f4 Qd8 25.Qg3 Qf6 26.Bg5 Qg6 27.Qf3 Nd6 28.Nc6 Bf8 29.Ne5 Qg7 30.Nd7 Ne4 31.Rxe4 fxe4 32.Qxe4 f6 33.Qxe6+ Qf7 34.Nxf6+ Kg7 35.Bh6+ Kg6 36.f5+ Kxh6 37.Qxf7 Bc5+ 38.Kh1 Raf8 39.Qh5+ Kg7 40.Nd7, Black resigns.

"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