Jim West On Chess: Westfield Swiss 9/16/2007

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Westfield Swiss 9/16/2007

There were 36 players in today's game/30 Swiss at Westfield. I finished in an 8-way tie for third place with a score of 2-0-2.

Here is my game against the highest rated opponent that I faced.

Round Four: King's Indian Defense

Sameer Mujumdar (USCF 2027) - Jim West (USCF 2203), Westfield NJ 9/16/2007

1.Nf3 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.c4 Bg7 5.Nc3 O-O 6.Bg2 Nbd7 7.e4 e5 8.O-O c6 9.h3 Qb6

10.Rb1 exd4 11.Qxd4 Qxd4 12.Nxd4 Nb6 13.b3 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 Bxd4 15.Nxd6 Rd8 16.Nxc8 Raxc8 17.Bf4 Bf6 18.Rbd1 Rxd1 19.Rxd1 Rd8 20.Rxd8+ Bxd8 21.Kf1 Kf8 22.Ke2 Ke7 23.h4 a5 24.Kd3 Nd7 25.a3 Bb6 26.Ke2 Bc5 27.Bd2 Bxa3 28.Bxa5 Bc5 29.Bc3 Bd6 30.b4 Ne5 31.Bxe5, draw.

"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