Jim West On Chess: Hamilton Quads 8/23/2008

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Hamilton Quads 8/23/2008

At today's Hamilton quads, I won my last round game against David Hua. It was the only loss for Hua who drew against two national masters in his prior rounds.

Round Three: Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - David Hua (USCF 1946), Hamilton NJ 8/23/2008

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.O-O Qc7 9.Be3 Nc6 10.f4 Bb7 11.a3 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Nxe4

13.f5 Nxc3 14.Bxc3 e5 15.f6 d5 16.Bxe5 Qb6+ 17.Kh1 g6 18.Bd4 Bc5 19.Qe2+ Kd7 20.Qg4+ Kc6 21.c3 Rad8 22.Rae1 Bc8 23.Qf4 Bxd4 24.cxd4 Be6 25.Rc1+ Kb7 26.Rc5 h5 27.Rfc1 Rd7 28.a4 Ra8

29.h3 Rd6 30.Qe5 Rad8 31.axb5 axb5 32.Qe2 Bd7 33.Bxd5+ Rxd5 34.Rxd5 Bg4 35.Qe7+, 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