Jim West On Chess: Thursday Action, Round 2, 8/8/2019

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Thursday Action, Round 2, 8/8/2019

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

Round Two: Pirc Defense

Ahmet Shapiro-Erciyas (USCF 2117) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 8/8/2019

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 c6 5.Qd2 b5 6.f3 Nbd7 7.O-O-O Nb6 8.g4 b4 9.Nb1 a5 10.h4 h5

11.gxh5 Nxh5 12.Bh2 Bh6 13.f4 d5 14.Nf3 Bg4 15.Qg2 Nxf4, 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