Jim West On Chess: Marshall Saturday Game/60 10/22/2016

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Marshall Saturday Game/60 10/22/2016

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

Round One: Philidor Counter Gambit

Ashutosh Gajbinkar (USCF 1784) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 10/22/2016

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.dxe5 fxe4 5.Ng5 d5 6.e6 Bc5 7.Nf7 Qf6 8.Be3 d4 9.Bg5 Qf5 10.Bh4 Bxe6 11.Nxh8 Nc6 12.Be2 Nf6 13.Nd2 O-O-O

14.Bb5 e3 15.O-O exd2 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.Qxd2 Rxh8 18.b4 Bb6 19.a4 Bc4 20.a5 Ne4 21.Qd1 Nc3 22.Qd2 Ne4 23.Qd1 Nc3 24.Qd2, 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