Jim West On Chess: Rahway Grand Prix 4/27/2013

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Rahway Grand Prix 4/27/2013

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 1-1-2 in the grand prix tournament at Chess Mates.

Round Three: Pirc Defense

Jim West (USCF 2205) - Mauricio Camejo (USCF 2171), Rahway NJ 4/27/2013

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f4 Bg4 5.Nf3 b5 6.a3 e6 7.h3 Bxf3 8.Qxf3 Nbd7 9.e5 Nd5 10.Nxd5 cxd5 11.Bd3 g6 12.c3 Rb8 13.Be3 a5 14.g4 Be7 15.exd6 Bxd6

16.f5 gxf5 17.gxf5 Rg8 18.fxe6 Bg3+ 19.Ke2 fxe6 20.Qh5+ Ke7 21.Bg5+ Nf6 22.Raf1 Rf8 23.Rxf6 Rxf6 24.Rf1 Kd6 25.Bxf6 Qc8 26.Be5+ Bxe5 27.Qxe5+ Kc6 28.Rf6, 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