Jim West On Chess: PCG versus King's Indian Attack

Sunday, July 1, 2007

PCG versus King's Indian Attack

For the second day in a row, my last round game was my best. Today I participated in a game/30 Swiss at the Marshall Chess Club where I finished with a score of 3-1-1.

The following game transposed into a Philidor Counter Gambit in which White avoids the sharp variations by 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d3 instead of 3.d4. I play 3...f5 anyway, leading to an easy game for Black.

Adithya Balasubramanian (USCF 2181) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 7/1/2007

1.Nf3 d6 2.d3 e5 3.g3 f5 4.Bg2 Nf6 5.e4 Be7 6.c3 c6 7.Nbd2 Qc7 8.Qb3 Qb6 9.Qc4 Qa6 10.Bh3 b5

11.Qb3 fxe4 12.Ng5 d5 13.Bxc8 Qxc8 14.dxe4 Qg4 15.Nf1 h6 16.h3 Qd7 17.Nf3 Nxe4 18.Nxe5 Qe6 19.f4 O-O

20.Be3 Bd6 21.Bd4 Bxe5 22.fxe5 Nd7 23.O-O-O Nxe5 24.Qc2 Nf3 25.g4 Nxd4 26.Rxd4 Rf2 27.Qd3 Raf8 28.Ne3 Nc5, White 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