Jim West On Chess: Marshall Sunday Game/60 9/30/2018

Monday, October 1, 2018

Marshall Sunday Game/60 9/30/2018

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

Round Two: Philidor Counter Gambit

Aarav Dogra (USCF 1560) - Jim West (USCF 2204), Marshall Chess Club 9/30/2018

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Ng3 e4 7.Nd2 Nf6 8.Qe2 Bd6 9.f3 O-O 10.fxe4 dxe4 11.Qc4+ Kh8 12.Nb3 Nbd7 13.Bg5 Nb6

14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.Nxe4 Qh4+ 16.g3 Qxe4+, White 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