Jim West On Chess: Red Bank Swiss 10/13/2013

Monday, October 14, 2013

Red Bank Swiss 10/13/2013

On Sunday, I finished with a score of 3-1-0 in the tournament at Red Bank.

Round Two: Sicilian Defense, Closed Variation

Jonathan Capalbo (USCF 1773) - Jim West (USCF 2216), Red Bank NJ 10/13/2013

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 g6 5.d3 Bg7 6.f4 b6 7.Nf3 Bb7 8.O-O Qd7 9.Be3 f5 10.Re1 Nf6 11.Bh3 Ng4 12.Bxg4 fxg4 13.Nh4 Nd4 14.Rb1 O-O

15.Ne2 e5 16.c3 Nf3+ 17.Nxf3 gxf3 18.Nc1 exf4 19.Bxf4 Rxf4 20.gxf4 Qg4+ 21.Kf2 Qxf4 22.Rh1 Rf8 23.h4 Be5 24.Rh3 Bc8 25.Rxf3 Qg3+ 26.Ke2 Qxf3+ 27.Ke1 Qf2#.

"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