Jim West On Chess: Marshall Saturday Game/50 6/30/2018

Sunday, July 1, 2018

Marshall Saturday Game/50 6/30/2018

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 1-1-2 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Two: Budapest Gambit, Fajarowicz Variation

Dwight Dans (USCF 2384) - Jim West (USCF 2200), Marshall Chess Club 6/30/3018

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4 4.Nf3 Bb4+ 5.Nbd2 Nc6 6.a3 Bxd2+ 7.Bxd2 Nxd2 8.Qxd2 Qe7 9.Qc3 O-O 10.e3 Re8 11.Be2 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 Qxe5 13.Qxe5 Rxe5 14.O-O-O d6

15.Bf3 Rb8 16.Rd4 b6 17.Rhd1 Bb7 18.Bxb7 Rxb7 19.Rd5, 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