Jim West On Chess: Thursday Night Action 12/3/2015

Friday, December 4, 2015

Thursday Night Action 12/3/2015

Last night, I finished with a score of 1-0-3 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round One: Philidor Counter Gambit

James Jeffrey (USCF 1975) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 12/3/2015

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Ng3 e4 7.Ne5 Nf6 8.Be2 Bd6 9.O-O O-O 10.f4 c5 11.c3 Nc6 12.Be3 cxd4 13.cxd4 Qb6 14.Qd2 Be6 15.a3 Rac8

16.f5 Bf7 17.Nxf7 Rxf7 18.Nh5 Qc7 19.Nxf6+ Rxf6 20.g3 Bxg3 21.hxg3 Qxg3+ 22.Kh1 Qh3+ 23.Kg1 Qg3+, 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