Jim West On Chess: FIDE Mondays 8/21/2017

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

FIDE Mondays 8/21/2017

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

Round Three: King's Indian Attack

Jim West (USCF 2211) - Robert Olsen (USCF 2049), Marshall Chess Club 8/21/2017

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.O-O O-O 5.d3 d5 6.Nbd2 c5 7.e4 Nc6 8.c3 e5

9.Qb3 Re8 10.Re1 d4 11.Nc4 h6 12.cxd4, 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