Jim West On Chess: Thursday Night Action 8/8/2013

Friday, August 9, 2013

Thursday Night Action 8/8/2013

Last night, I finished with a score of 2-1-1 in the game/30 tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: Pirc Defense

Jim West (USCF 2217) - Azikiwe Peters (USCF 1888), Marshall Chess Club 8/8/2013

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.f4 e5 5.Nf3 exd4 6.Nxd4 Nc5 7.Bd3 Be7 8.O-O Bg4 9.Nf3 Qd7 10.Be3 O-O

11.h3 Bxh3 12.gxh3 Qxh3 13.Bxc5 dxc5 14.Nh2 c4 15.Bxc4 Bc5+ 16.Kh1 Nh5 17.Ne2 Rad8 18.Bd3 Rd6 19.Rf3 Qd7 20.e5 Rh6 21.Bxh7+ Rxh7 22.Qxd7, 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