Jim West On Chess: 15/10 Dutch 7/12/2020

Monday, July 13, 2020

15/10 Dutch 7/12/2020

Dutch Defense

Oleksii44 (Chess.com 1811) - JimWest (Chess.com 1860), Chess.com 7/12/2020

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bd2 b6 6.e3 Bb7 7.Bd3 a5 8.a3 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 Ne4 10.Bxe4 Bxe4 11.d5 Qe7 12.Qd4 O-O 13.O-O-O Na6

14.Nd2 Nc5 15.f3 Nd3+ 16.Kb1 e5, 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