Jim West On Chess: Marshall Masters 7/21/2015

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Marshall Masters 7/21/2015

On Tuesday, I finished with a score of 1-2-1 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: Sicilian Defense, Sveshnikov Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Ryan Ruiz (USCF 2162), Marshall Chess Club 7/21/2015

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.Na3 b5 10.Nd5 f5 11.c3 Bg7 12.exf5 Bxf5 13.Nc2 O-O 14.Nce3 Be6 15.g3 f5 16.Bh3 Ne7 17.Nxe7+ Qxe7 18.O-O Kh8

19.Qh5 Qf7 20.Qxf7 Rxf7 21.a4 Rb8 22.axb5 axb5 23.Ra6 Bf8 24.Rfa1 Rbb7 25.Ra8 Kg7 26.f4 e4 27.Kf2 b4 28.c4 Kg6 29.b3 Bg7 30.Rd1 Bf8 31.Rda1 Bg7 32.Rd1 Bf8, 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