Jim West On Chess: Garwood Saturday Swiss 5/4/2019

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Garwood Saturday Swiss 5/4/2019

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 1-1-1 plus a half point bye in the tournament at Garwood.

Round One: Philidor Counter Gambit

Deven Wagle (USCF 1595) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Garwood NJ 5/4/2019

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5 4.exf5 Bxf5 5.d3 c6 6.O-O Nf6 7.Ng5 d5 8.Bb3 Bd6 9.c4 h6 10.Nf3 Nbd7 11.Re1 O-O 12.Nc3 Be6 13.h3 Qe8 14.Ne2 Nc5 15.Bc2 dxc4 16.dxc4 Rd8

17.b3 Bc7 18.Bd2 Nfe4 19.Ned4 Nxd2 20.Qxd2 Rxf3 21.gxf3 Rxd4 22.Qe3 Qh5 23.Rad1 Qxh3 24.Rxd4 exd4, 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