Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 7/31/2017

Thursday, August 3, 2017

FIDE Mondays 7/31/2017

On Monday evening, I finished with a score of 1-1-3 plus a half point bye in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Six: Sicilian Defense, Alapin Variation

Arthur Tollefson (USCF 2019) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 7/31/2017

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.cxd4 e6 7.Nc3 Nxc3 8.bxc3 d5 9.exd6 Bxd6 10.Bd3 h6 11.O-O O-O

12.Re1 b6 13.Qe2 Bd7 14.Bd2 Re8 15.Ne5 Nxe5 16.dxe5 Bf8 17.Qe4 g6 18.h4 Bc6 19.Qd4 Bc5 20.Qc4 h5 21.Bg5 Qd5 22.Qxd5 Bxd5 23.Bb5 Rec8, 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