Jim West On Chess: Marshall January Grand Prix 1/5/2014

Monday, January 6, 2014

Marshall January Grand Prix 1/5/2014

On Sunday, playing in the two day schedule, I finished with a score of 2-1-3 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Six: Torre Attack

Michael Layevskiy (FIDE 1983) - Jim West (FIDE 2065), Marshall Chess Club 1/5/2014

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.c3 c5 5.Nbd2 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Nc6 7.e4 O-O 8.Qb3 Nxd4 9.cxd4 d6 10.Bd3 h6 11.Bh4 Qa5

12.Qc3 Qxc3 13.bxc3 g5 14.Bg3 Nh5 15.Nf1 e5 16.d5 Nf4 17.Bxf4 exf4 18.Kd2 f5 19.f3 fxe4 20.Bxe4 Bf5 21.Rb1 Bxe4 22.fxe4 b6 23.Kd3 Rfc8 24.c4 Rc5 25.Rb3 Ra5 26.a3 Be5 27.h3 Rc8 28.Nd2, 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