Jim West On Chess: Rahway Quad 8/17/2013

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Rahway Quad 8/17/2013

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 1-1-1 in the game/45 quad at Chess Mates.

Round Two: Dutch Defense, Korchnoi Gambit

Mauricio Camejo (USCF 2062) - Jim West (USCF 2217), Rahway NJ 8/17/2013

1.d4 f5 2.g4 fxg4 3.e4 d5 4.Nc3 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Nf6 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.c3 e5 8.Nxf6+ Qxf6 9.d5 Bc5 10.Qe2 Ne7 11.Be4 O-O 12.Be3 Bxe3 13.fxe3 Qh4+ 14.Kd1 Bf5 15.Bg2 Rad8 16.c4 e4

17.Qe1 Qf6 18.Kc2 c6 19.dxc6 Nxc6 20.Ne2 Qd6 21.Rd1 Qc5 22.Qc3 Rd3 23.Qe1 Qxc4+ 24.Nc3 Rfd8 25.Qf2 Nb4+ 26.Kb1 Rxd1+ 27.Rxd1 Rxd1+ 28.Nxd1 Qxa2+ 29.Kc1 Nd3+, White 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