Jim West On Chess: Rahway Swiss 4/21/2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Rahway Swiss 4/21/2012

On Saturday, I won this game at Chess Mates in the game/45 Swiss tournament.

Round Two: Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation

William Graif (USCF 2043) - Jim West (USCF 2226), Rahway NJ 4/21/2012

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7 10.g4 b5 11.Bxf6 Nxf6 12.g5 Nd7 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.h4 O-O-O

15.Qe2 Nc5 16.Nb3 d5 17.e5 g6 18.h5 Kb8 19.Nd4 b4 20.Nb1 Qa5 21.a3 bxa3 22.Nxa3 Qa4 23.Qe3Rc8 24.Kb1 Ne4 25.Bxe4 dxe4 26.Rh3 Rhd8 27.Qg1 Bc5 28.c4 e3, White forfeits.

"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