Jim West On Chess: Rahway Swiss 3/30/2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Rahway Swiss 3/30/2013

Yesterday I played this PCG in the game/45 tournament at Chess Mates.

Round Four: Philidor Counter Gambit

Michael O'Connor (USCF 1772) - Jim West (USCF 2211), Rahway NJ 3/30/2013

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Nxe5 dxe4 7.Qh5+ g6 8.Nxg6 Nf6 9.Qe5+ Kf7 10.Bc4+ Kg7 11.Nf4 h6 12.Be6 Bb4+ 13.c3 Nc6 14.Qf5 Qe8 15.Bxc8 Nxd4

16.Ne6+ Qxe6 17.Bxe6 Nxf5 18.Bxf5 Bc5 19.Be3 Bxe3 20.fxe3 Rhd8 21.Rd1 Rxd1+ 22.Kxd1 Rd8+ 23.Ke2 Rd5 24.Be6 Rb5 25.Bb3 a5 26.Rb1 Rg5 27.Rg1 Rb5 28.Rb1, 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