Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 7/3/2017

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

FIDE Mondays 7/3/2017

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

Round Two: Larsen's Opening

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Szymon Rudowski (USCF 2009), Marshall Chess Club 7/3/2017

1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 d6 3.c4 Nf6 4.d3 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.e3 O-O 7.Be2 Nbd7 8.O-O a5 9.a3 Nc5 10.Nbd2 Bd7 11.Qc2 Qe7

12.Rfe1 Rfe8 13.Bf1 Qd8 14.d4 exd4 15.Nxd4 Ne6 16.b4, 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