Jim West On Chess: Rahway Swiss 12/9/2012

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Rahway Swiss 12/9/2012

On Sunday morning, I played this PCG in the game/30 Swiss tournament at Chess Mates. White blundered a piece, in my time trouble.

Round Three: Philidor Counter Gambit

Sam Barsky (USCF 2125) - Jim West (USCF 2207), Rahway NJ 12/9/2012

1.d4 d6 2.e4 e5 3.Nf3 f5 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.exf5 Bxf5 6.O-O Nf6 7.c3 Be7 8.Re1 e4 9.d5 exf3 10.dxc6 bxc6 11.Qf3 Qd7

12.Bb5 Be4 13.Rxe4 Nxe4 14.Ba4 d5 15.c4 Rf8 16.Qh5+ g6 17.Qxh7 O-O-O 18.Nd2 Qf5 19.Nxe4 dxe4 20.Be3 Bc5 21.Bxc5 Qxc5 22.Qh3+ Kb7 23.Qb3+ Ka8 24.Qe3 Qxe3 25.Bxc6+ Kb8 26.fxe3 Rd2 27.Bxe4 Rxb2

28.h4 Rff2 29.a4 Rfd2 30.Ra3 Kc8 31.Bc6 Kd8 32.c5 Ke7 33.Be4 Kf6 34.Kh2 Ra2 35.Rb3 Rxa4 36.Rb7 Rxe4 37.Rxa7 Rxh4+ 38.Kg3 Rh7 39.Kf3 Rc2 40.Ra5 Re7 41.Ra6+ Kg7 42.Ra3 Rxc5 43.Kf4 Rc2 44.e4 Rxg2 45.Ra4 Re2 46.e5 R7xe5 47.Rc4 R2e4+, 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