Jim West On Chess: Edison Quad, Round 3, 6/8/2019

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Edison Quad, Round 3, 6/8/2019

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 2-0-1 at the quad in Edison.

Round Three: Sicilian Defense

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Arthur Shu (USCF 670), Edison NJ 6/8/2019

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.dxc5 Bg7 6.cxd6 exd6 7.Bb5+ Nc6 8.O-O O-O 9.Bf4 a6 10.Bxc6 bxc6 11.Qxd6 Qb6 12.Qa3 a5 13.h3 a4 14.Rad1 Ba6 15.Rfe1 Rfe8

16.Bd6 Re6 17.Nxa4 Bb5 18.Nxb6 Rxa3 19.Bxa3 Nxe4 20.Nd4 Bxd4 21.Rxd4 Ba6 22.Rdxe4 Rd6 23.Bxd6, 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