Jim West On Chess: Rahway Swiss 9/29/2013

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Rahway Swiss 9/29/2013

On Sunday, I finished with a score of 2-0-1 in the game/30 tournament at Chess Mates.

Round One: Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Errol Singh (USCF 1975), Rahway NJ 9/29/2013

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Qc7 8.O-O Be7 9.Be3 b5 10.a3 Bb7 11.f4 O-O 12.f5 e5 13.Nde2 Nxe4 14.Nxe4 Bxe4 15.Ng3 Bb7 16.Qg4 Kh8 17.Nh5 Bf6

18.Bg5 Bxg5 19.Qxg5 f6 20.Qg4 Nc6 21.c3 Na5 22.Ba2 Bc6 23.Rad1 Ra7 24.b4 Nc4 25.Bxc4 bxc4 26.Kh1 d5 27.Rf3 d4 28.Rh3 dxc3 29.Rxc3 Be8 30.Ng3 Bf7 31.Ne4 Rd8 32.Nc5 Rxd1+ 33.Qxd1 Qe7 34.h3 a5

35.Qf3 axb4 36.axb4 Qd6 37.Ra3 Re7 38.Ra8+ Re8 39.Rxe8+ Bxe8 40.Qa8 Qc6 41.Qd8 Kg8 42.Qe7 h6 43.Ne6 Qd7 44.Qf8+ Kh7 45.Qc5 Bf7 46.Nf8+ Kg8 47.Nxd7 e4, 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