Jim West On Chess: Thursday Night Action 11/8/2018

Friday, November 9, 2018

Thursday Night Action 11/8/2018

On Thursday, I won this game in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round One: King's Indian Attack

Jim West (USCF 2200) - William O'Brien (USCF 1589), Marshall Chess Club 11/8/2018

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d3 d5 4.Nbd2 Nf6 5.g3 Be6 6.Bg2 h5 7.h4 dxe4 8.dxe4 Bc5 9.O-O Qd7 10.c3 O-O-O

11.b4 Bd6 12.Qa4 Kb8 13.Ng5 Ng4 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.Nc4 Be7 16.b5 Nd4 17.cxd4 Qxd4 18.Bb2 Qc5 19.Ba3, 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