Jim West On Chess: Rahway Quad 6/2/2012

Monday, June 4, 2012

Rahway Quad 6/2/2012

Alexander Crump [seated left] won Saturday's game/45 quad at Chess Mates. Besides myself, the other players were Mina Awad [seated right] and Lev Zilbermintz [standing].

Round One: Larsen's Opening

Jim West (USCF 2208) - Lev Zilbermintz (USCF 2098), Rahway NJ 6/4/2012

1.b3 g5 2.Bb2 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 c6 5.e3 Bg7 6.Ne2 Be6 7.d3 Qd7 8.h4 h6 9.Nd2 Na6 10.Nf3 g4 11.Nfd4 c5 12.Nxe6 fxe6 13.Qd2 O-O-O 14.O-O-O Rhf8 15.Rhf1 Nc7

16.Qa5 Na6 17.Nf4 Qc7 18.Qxc7+ Nxc7 19.Be5 Nfe8 20.Bxg7 Nxg7 21.Ng6 Rfe8 22.Ne5 h5, 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