Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 5/14/2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

FIDE Mondays 5/14/2012

On Monday evening, my opponent blundered a piece at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Five: Center Counter Defense

Jim West (FIDE 2112) - Juan Sena (FIDE 2140), Marshall Chess Club 5/14/2012

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 a6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Be2 Nc6 7.O-O Bf5 8.Be3 e6 9.Qd2 O-O-O 10.a3 Ne4 11.Nxe4 Bxe4 12.Rad1 Be7 13.c3 Rhg8

14.Ng5 Bxg5 15.Bxg5 f6 16.Bf4 Qd5 17.f3 Bf5 18.Bd3 Nxd4 19.Be4 Bxe4 20.fxe4 Nf3+ 21.gxf3, 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