Jim West On Chess: Rahway Quad 12/3/2016

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Rahway Quad 12/3/2016

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 2-1-0 in the quad at Chess Mates.

Round Two: Center Counter Defense

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Mauricio Camejo (USCF 2000), Rahway NJ 12/3/2016

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qa5 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bf5 7.Bc4 Nd7 8.Bd2 Qc7 9.Qe2 Bxc2 10.Rc1 Bg6 11.d5 Qd8 12.O-O Ngf6

13.d6 b5 14.Bxb5 e6 15.Bxc6 Bxd6 16.Bxa8 Qxa8 17.Nb5 Bb8 18.Bb4 Qb7 19.Rfd1 Be4 20.Ng5 Nb6 21.Nd6+ Bxd6 22.Bxd6 Na8 23.Qc4 Kd7 24.Ba3+, 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