Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 11/20/2017

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

FIDE Mondays 11/20/2017

On Monday, this game was played at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: Sicilian Defense, Paulsen Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Victor Ying (USCF 2140), Marshall Chess Club 11/20/2017

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 g6 6.O-O Bg7 7.Nb3 Ne7 8.c4 O-O 9.Nc3 d5

10.cxd5 exd5 11.exd5 Nxd5 12.Nxd5 Qxd5 13.Qe2 Nc6, 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