Jim West On Chess: Rahway Swiss 4/20/2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Rahway Swiss 4/20/2013

Yesterday I finished with a score of 2-1-1 in the game/45 tournament at Chess Mates.

Round Four: King's Indian Defense, Averbakh Variation

Vladimir Polyakin (USCF 2110) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Rahway NJ 4/20/2013

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Bg5 c5 7.d5 h6 8.Bf4 b5 9.cxb5 a6 10.a4 Qa5 11.Bd2 axb5 12.Bxb5 Qb6 13.Nge2 Ba6 14.O-O Bxb5 15.axb5 Nbd7

16.Qb3 Rfb8 17.Ra3 Ne8 18.Rfa1 Nc7 19.Rxa8 Rxa8 20.Rxa8+ Nxa8 21.Na4 Qa7 22.Qc2 Qb7 23.Nec3 Nab6 24.h4 h5 25.Be3 Bf6 26.Bg5 Bxg5 27.hxg5 Qa7 28.b3 Qa5 29.Nxb6 Nxb6 30.f4 Qb4

31.g3 c4 32.bxc4 Nxc4 33.Qd3 Qc5+ 34.Kg2 Ne3+ 35.Kf3 Nc4 36.Kg2 Ne3+ 37.Kf3 Ng4 38.Nd1 Qg1 39.Ke2 Qg2+ 40.Ke1 Qg1+ 41.Ke2 Qg2+ 42.Ke1 Qg1+ 43.Ke2, 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