Jim West On Chess: Thursday Night Action 7/12/2018

Friday, July 13, 2018

Thursday Night Action 7/12/2018

On Thursday, I finished with a score of 2-0-2 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Three: Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Jacob Pope (USCF 2070), Marshall Chess Club 7/12/2018

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.f4 Qc7 9.Be3 b5 10.a3 Bd7 11.Qf3 O-O 12.O-O Nc6 13.f5 e5 14.Nde2 Na5

15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.Bxd5 Bc6 17.Nc3 Rfc8 18.Qh5 Bf8 19.Rf3 Bxd5 20.Nxd5 Qxc2 21.Rh3 h6 22.Qg4 Rc4 23.Bxh6 Qxe4 24.Nf6+, Black resigns.

"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