Jim West On Chess: USATE 2015, Day 3

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

USATE 2015, Day 3

My team Ferrero Forever finished with a score of 3-0-3 in the USATE 2015, won by Virginia Assassins.

Round Six: French Defense, King's Indian Attack

Jim West (USCF 2208) - Jack Hutton (USCF 2125), Parsippany NJ 2/16/2015

1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nc6 5.g3 Bd6 6.Bg2 Nge7 7.O-O O-O 8.Nh4 Qc7 9.f4 f6 10.exd5 exd5 11.Re1 g5 12.fxg5 fxg5 13.Nhf3 Bg4

14.Nf1 Nd4 15.N1d2 Rf5 16.c3 Nxf3+ 17.Bxf3 Bxf3 18.Nxf3 Bxg3 19.Rxe7 Bf2+ 20.Kxf2 Qxe7 21.Kg2 g4 22.Ng1 Qh4 23.Be3 Raf8 24.Qe1 Qe7 25.Qg3 Kh8 26.Re1 R8f6 27.Bd4, 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