Jim West On Chess: Ferrero

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Ferrero - Petty

In the Under 2000 section of the National Open, Atlantic Chess News editor Steve Ferrero drew this game. White's final move 24.Bc3 is slightly inaccurate. He should leave the c3 square available for his queen by 24.f4 Nh7 25.f5 Qe4 26.Qc3 Nf6 27.Rf4 Qe5 28.Qc2 Qe7 with an equal position.

Round Three: Larsen's Opening

Steve Ferrero (USCF 1871) - David Petty (USCF 1949), National Open 6/7/2008

1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 d5 4.Bb5 Bd6 5.Nf3 Qe7 6.c4 Nf6 7.c5 Bxc5 8.Nxe5 O-O 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Be2 Re8

11.Qc2 Ne4 12.O-O Bd7 13.Nc3 Nf6 14.Bd3 Bd6 15.g3 Rab8 16.Ne2 h6 17.Nd4 c5 18.Nf5 Qd8 19.Nxd6 cxd6

20.Bf5 Ne4 21.Bxd7 Qxd7 22.f3 Ng5 23.Qd3 Qe6 24.Bc3, 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