Jim West On Chess: Safroshkin - JimWest, Game/30 3/8/20

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Safroshkin - JimWest, Game/30 3/8/20

Falkbeer Counter Gambit

Safroshkin (Chess.com 1719) - NM JimWest (Chess.com 1908), Chess.com 3/8/2020

1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.d3 Qxd5 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd2 Bxc3 7.Bxc3 Ne7 8.Bxg7 Rg8 9.Be5 Nbc6 10.dxe4 Qxe4+ 11.Qe2 Qxe2+ 12.Nxe2 Nxe5 13.fxe5 Nc6 14.O-O-O Nxe5

15.Ng3 Be6 16.Bb5+ c6 17.Ba4 Ng4 18.Rd2 Rd8 19.Ne4 Rxd2 20.Kxd2 Ke7 21.h3 Ne5 22.g4 Bd5 23.Ke3 Nc4+ 24.Kf4 Nd6 25.Re1 Bxe4 26.Rxe4+ Nxe4 27.Kxe4 Kf6, White 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