Jim West On Chess: Marshall January Under 2400 1/20/2018

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Marshall January Under 2400 1/20/2018

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

Round Two: Philidor Counter Gambit

Matt Boxer (USCF 1950) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 1/20/2018

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Nxe5 dxe4 7.Qh5+ g6 8.Nxg6 Nf6 9.Qe5+ Kf7 10.Bc4+ Kg7 11.Bh6+ Kxh6 12.Nxh8 Bb4+ 13.c3 Qxh8 14.cxb4 Qf8

15.O-O Nbd7 16.Qf4+ Kg7 17.a3 Qd6 18.Qg5+ Kh8 19.Rad1 Nb6 20.Bb3 Bd7 21.f3 e3 22.Rfe1 Nbd5 23.Bxd5 Nxd5 24.Qe5+ Kg8 25.Qg5+ Kh8 26.Qe5+, 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