Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 7/1/2013

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

FIDE Mondays 7/1/2013

On Monday evening, I played this game at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Five: Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation

Jim West (FIDE 2108) - Stanislav Busygin (FIDE 2141), Marshall Chess Club 7/1/2013

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Bg4 6.h3 h5 7.d3 Qf6 8.Nbd2 Bc5 9.Nc4 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Qxf3 11.gxf3 f6 12.f4 exf4 13.Bxf4 O-O-O

14.Be3 Bd4 15.Bxd4 Rxd4 16.Rad1 c5 17.f4 Nh6 18.Nd2 Rd7 19.a4 Nf7 20.Nc4 Nd8 21.Rde1 Ne6 22.f5 Nd8 23.Ne3 Nf7 24.b3 b6 25.Kf2 Ne5 26.Rg1 g5 27.fxg6 Rg7 28.Nf5, 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