Jim West On Chess: Rahway Swiss 6/29/2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Rahway Swiss 6/29/2013

On Saturday, this game was played in the game/45 tournament at Chess Mates.

Round One: Philidor Counter Gambit

Roshan Idnani (USCF 1715) - Jim West (USCF 2234), Rahway NJ 6/29/2013

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.Nxh8+ Kg7 11.Nf7 Kxf7 12.Bc4+ Kg7 13.Qg3+ Kh8 14.Bg5 Bg7 15.O-O-O Nc6 16.Rhe1 Bf5 17.Qf4 Bg6 18.f3 Qd6

19.Qxd6 cxd6 20.fxe4 Nxe4 21.Be3 Rf8 22.Rf1 Rxf1 23.Bxf1 Nb4 24.a3 Nd5 25.Bd2 Bxd4 26.Kb1 Bh5 27.Re1 Nxd2+ 28.Ka2 Nxf1 29.Rxf1 Kg7 30.Rf5 Nf6 31.c3 Bf7+ 32.Ka1 Be5 33.g3 a5 34.Rg5+ Bg6 35.h4 h6, White forfeits.

"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