Jim West On Chess: Marshall FIDE Mondays 7/4/2016

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Marshall FIDE Mondays 7/4/2016

Despite the low turnout last night, with many players taking byes due to the holiday while others forfeited, I played this game at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: King's Indian Defense, Makagonov Variation

Moshe Uminer (FIDE 1966) - Jim West (FIDE 2037), Marshall Chess Club 7/4/2016

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.h3 e5 7.d5 Nbd7 8.Bd3 Nc5 9.Bc2 a5 10.g4 c6 11.Bg5 cxd5 12.cxd5 Qb6 13.Qd2 Bd7 14.O-O-O Rfc8 15.Kb1 a4

16.Ng1 Nb3 17.axb3 axb3 18.Bd3 Qa5 19.Kc1 Qa1+ 20.Bb1 Nxe4 21.Qe3 Nxc3 22.bxc3 Rxc3+ 23.Kd2 Qb2+ 24.Ke1 Rxe3+ 25.Bxe3 Ra1 26.Bd3 Qc3+, White 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