Jim West On Chess: micaman994 - NM JimWest @ Chess.com

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

micaman994 - NM JimWest @ Chess.com

Last night, during a chess lesson at Chess.com, I played this PCG against my student Michael O'Connor [pictured].

Philidor Counter Gambit

micaman994 (CC 1685) - NM JimWest (CC 1676), Chess.com 4/23/2012

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Nxe5 dxe4 7.Qh5+ g6 8.Nxg6 Nf6 9.Qe5+ Kf7 10.Bc4+ Kg7 11.Bh6+ Kxh6 12.Nxh8 Bb4+ 13.c3 Qxh8 14.h4 Kg7 15.Qxc7+ Bd7 16.Rh3 Qf8

17.Rg3+ Kh8 18.Qe5 Bg4 19.cxb4 Nbd7 20.Qb5 a6 21.Qxb7 Rb8 22.Qxa6 Qxb4+ 23.Kf1 Qxb2 24.Re1 Qxd4 25.Rb3 Rf8 26.Rb7 Nh5 27.Qa7, 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