Jim West On Chess: Independence Day Action 7/4/2018

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Independence Day Action 7/4/2018

On Wednesday, I finished with a score of 1-1-4 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Five: English Opening, Symmetrical Variation

Dwight Dans (USCF 2333) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 7/4/2018

1.c4 g6 2.Nc3 Bg7 3.g3 c5 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.Nf3 e6 6.O-O Nge7 7.e3 O-O 8.d4 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Nxd4 10.exd4 d5 11.cxd5 Nxd5 12.Nxd5 exd5

13.Be3 Be6 14.Qb3 Qd7 15.Rfc1 Rfc8 16.Bf1 Rxc1 17.Rxc1 Rc8, 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