Jim West On Chess: USATE 2/16/2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

USATE 2/16/2013

On Saturday, I won this game at the U.S. Amateur Team East tournament in Parsippany.

Round One: Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation

Jim West (FIDE 2102) - Deborah Quinn (FIDE 1841), USATE 2/16/2013

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.h3 h5 7.d3 Bxf3 8.Qxf3 Bc5 9.Nd2 Qf6 10.Qxf6 Nxf6 11.Nc4 Nd7 12.Be3 Bxe3 13.Nxe3 O-O-O

14.g3 g6 15.Kg2 Nc5 16.f4 f6 17.fxe5 fxe5 18.Rf6 Rd6 19.Raf1 Re8 20.b3 Ne6 21.Nc4 Nf4+ 22.R1xf4 exf4 23.Rxd6 f3+ 24.Kf2 b5 25.Rxg6 bxc4 26.bxc4 Rf8 27.Rxc6 Kb7 28.Rh6, 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