Jim West On Chess: USATE 2016, Day 3

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

USATE 2016, Day 3

Pictured (right to left) from the USATE 2016 is the team West Orange Krush with IM Mikhail Zlotnikov, NM Vladimir Lipman, NM Jim West, and Steve Hrop.

Round Five: Dutch Defense

Dave Diamond (USCF 1830) - Jim West (USCF 2203), Parsippany NJ 2/15/2016

1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.c3 Nf6 4.Nbd2 b6 5.e3 Bb7 6.Bd3 Be7 7.Qc2 O-O 8.h3 Ba6 9.g4 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 g6 11.gxf5 exf5 12.Rg1 Kh8 13.Ng5 Qc8 14.e4 fxe4 15.Ndxe4 d5 16.Nxf6 Bxf6

17.Nxh7 Qe8+ 18.Be3 Kxh7 19.O-O-O Qe4 20.Qe2 Nd7 21.Rg4 Qf5 22.Rdg1 Rg8 23.h4 Qh5 24.Rxg6 Qxh4 25.Qd3 Rxg6 26.Qxg6+ Kh8 27.Qf7 Qh7 28.Qxd5 Re8 29.Rh1 Bh4 30.Rxh4 Qxh4 31.Qxd7 Qe7

32.Qc6 Rd8 33.Qg6 Qg7 34.Qe4, 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