Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 7/17/2017

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

FIDE Mondays 7/17/2017

On Monday evening, I played this game at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Four: Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation

Kadhir Pillai (USCF 2172) - Jim West (USCF 2209), Marshall Chess Club 7/17/2017

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Be3 Be6 9.O-O Nbd7 10.a4 O-O 11.a5 Qc7 12.f3 Rac8 13.Rf2 Rfd8 14.Bf1 d5

15.exd5 Nxd5 16.Nxd5 Bxd5 17.Rd2 Bxb3 18.cxb3 Bc5 19.Bxc5 Qxc5+ 20.Kh1 Qe7, 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