Jim West On Chess: Westfield Octos, Round 1, 10/6/2019

Monday, October 7, 2019

Westfield Octos, Round 1, 10/6/2019

On Sunday, I played this game at the octos in Westfield.

Round One: Center Counter Defense

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Evan Kauffmann (USCF 2080), Westfield NJ 10/6/2019

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd8 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3 c6 8.Be3 e6 9.a3 Nbd7 10.Bc4 Bd6 11.O-O a5 12.Rfe1 O-O 13.Rad1 Qc7

14.Bg5 Rfe8 15.Bxf6 Nxf6 16.Ne4 Nxe4 17.Qxe4 Rad8 18.Bd3 g6 19.c3 Bf8 20.b4 Ra8 21.Ra1, draw.

"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