Jim West On Chess: Marshall July Under 2300

Monday, July 30, 2012

Marshall July Under 2300

On the weekend, I finished with a score of 2-1-1 in the under 2300 Swiss tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: Larsen's Opening

Jim West (USCF 2203) - Taner Ture (USCF 2042), Marshall Chess Club 7/29/2012

1.b3 c5 2.Bb2 d5 3.e3 a6 4.f4 Nc6 5.Nf3 d4 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.O-O g6 8.a4 Bg7 9.Na3 O-O 10.Nc4 Bg4

11.h3 Bxf3 12.Qxf3 Nd5 13.Be4 e6 14.a5 Rb8 15.g4 f5 16.gxf5 gxf5 17.Bxd5 Qxd5 18.d3 dxe3 19.Bxg7 Kxg7 20.Qxd5 exd5 21.Nxe3 d4 22.Nc4 Nb4 23.Rf2 Kf6 24.Re1 Rg8+ 25.Kh2 Rbe8 26.Rfe2 Rxe2+ 27.Rxe2 Nd5 28.Rf2 Ke6

29.Re2+ Kf6 30.Nd6 Ne3 31.Rf2 Ke6 32.Nc4 Nd5 33.Rf1 Rg7 34.Rf2, 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