Jim West On Chess: Marshall September Under 2400 9/23/2018

Monday, September 24, 2018

Marshall September Under 2400 9/23/2018

On Sunday, I finished with a score of 2-1-0 plus two half point byes in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Five: French Defense, Exchange Variation

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Matthew Boxer (USCF 1922), Marshall Chess Club 9/23/2018

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.Bd3 Ne7 6.O-O Bf5 7.Re1 O-O 8.Bg5 f6 9.Bh4 Qd7 10.Bg3 Bxd3 11.Qxd3 Nf5 12.Nbd2 Nxg3 13.hxg3 Nc6 14.c3 Ne7

15.Re2 Ng6 16.Rae1 Rfe8 17.Kf1 Kf7 18.Rxe8 Rxe8 19.Rxe8 Qxe8 20.Qf5 Qe6 21.Ng5+, Black resigns.

"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