Jim West On Chess: Marshall Saturday Game/60 10/14/2017

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Marshall Saturday Game/60 10/14/2017

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 1-0-2 plus a half point bye in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: French Defense, Exchange Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Victor Chen (USCF 1973), Marshall Chess Club 10/14/2017

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.Bd3 Ne7 6.O-O h6 7.Re1 O-O 8.Nc3 c6 9.Ne5 Bf5 10.Bf4 Qc7 11.Bg3 Bxd3 12.Qxd3 Nd7

13.Nd1 Rae8 14.Nxd7 Qxd7 15.Ne3 Bxg3 16.hxg3 Nc8 17.Re2 Re4 18.Rae1 Rfe8 19.f3 R4e7 20.Nf1 Nd6 21.Rxe7 Rxe7 22.Rxe7 Qxe7 23.Kf2, 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