Jim West On Chess: Marshall Masters 7/16/2013

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Marshall Masters 7/16/2013

On Tuesday evening, I drew this game in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Two: Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation

Jim West (USCF 2237) - Samuel Kahn (USCF 2021), Marshall Chess Club 7/16/2013

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Bd6 6.d4 exd4 7.Qxd4 f6 8.Nbd2 Ne7 9.Nc4 Be6 10.Nxd6+ cxd6 11.c4 O-O 12.Bf4 d5 13.cxd5 cxd5 14.exd5 Qxd5

15.Bd6 Rfd8 16.Bxe7 Qxd4 17.Nxd4 Rxd4 18.b3 Kf7 19.Bc5 Rd2 20.Be3 Rc2 21.Rfc1 Rac8 22.Kf1 Ke7 23.Ke1 Bf5, 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