Jim West On Chess: Westfield Octos, Round 3, 10/6/2019

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Westfield Octos, Round 3, 10/6/2019

On Sunday, I finished with a score of 0-0-3 at the octos in Westfield.

Round Three: Larsen's Opening

Jim West (USCF 2200) - Justin Lee (USCF 2171), Westfield NJ 10/6/2019

1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.c4 Bg4 5.Nf3 e6 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Be2 Nc6 8.O-O Bd6 9.Nc3 O-O 10.h3 Bh5 11.Rc1 Rc8

12.Nb5 Bb8 13.Nbd4 Nxd4 14.Nxd4 Rxc1 15.Bxc1 Qd6 16.f4 Bxe2 17.Qxe2 Ne4 18.Bb2 e5 19.Nf5, 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