Jim West On Chess: Marshall October Weekend FIDE 10/1/2016

Monday, October 3, 2016

Marshall October Weekend FIDE 10/1/2016

On Saturday, I won this game in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Two: Caro-Kann Defense, Exchange Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Jason Li (USCF 1922), Marshall Chess Club 10/1/2016

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.c3 Nc6 6.Bf4 e6 7.Nf3 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.h3 Bd7 10.Nbd2 Rc8 11.Re1 Re8 12.Ne5 a6 13.Ndf3 Na5

14.Ng5 Rf8 15.Qc2 h6 16.Bh7+ Kh8 17.Ngxf7+, 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