Jim West On Chess: Marshall CC Championship 12/14/2014

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Marshall CC Championship 12/14/2014

On Sunday, I played this game at the Marshall Chess Club championship.

Round Five: King's Indian Defense

Michael Layevskiy (FIDE 1959) - Jim West (FIDE 2076), Marshall Chess Club 12/14/2014

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.e3 Bg7 4.Be2 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.b3 Nbd7 7.Bb2 e5

8.dxe5 Ng4 9.c4 Ngxe5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Nc3 Bd7 12.Qd2 Qh4 13.Nd5 Rac8 14.f4 Nc6, 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