Jim West On Chess: Marshall Saturday Game/60 10/8/2016

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Marshall Saturday Game/60 10/8/2016

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

Round Three: Philidor Counter Gambit

David Liu (USCF 1930) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 10/8/2016

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 d6 3.Nf3 f5 4.d3 c6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.O-O f4 7.g3 b5 8.Bb3 fxg3 9.fxg3 Qb6+ 10.Kg2 Bg4 11.Qe1 Bxf3+ 12.Rxf3 Nbd7 13.Be3 Qb7 14.Rd1 O-O-O

15.a4 b4 16.Na2 d5 17.exd5 cxd5 18.d4 e4 19.Rf1 Bd6 20.c3 bxc3 21.Qxc3+ Kb8, 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