Jim West On Chess: 15/10 Falkbeer 8/4/2020

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

15/10 Falkbeer 8/4/2020

Falkbeer Counter Gambit

wahidhilal (Chess.com 1795) - JimWest (Chess.com 1830), Chess.com 8/4/2020

1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.Qe2 Nf6 5.d4 Qxd5 6.c4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Qxd4 8.Bd2 O-O 9.O-O-O Bg4

10.Nf3 exf3 11.gxf3 Re8 12.Qg2 Bf5 13.Qg5 Bg6 14.Bg2 Qd3 15.Ne4 Qxc4+ 16.Kb1 Nxe4 17.fxe4 Bxe4+ 18.Bxe4 Qxe4+ 19.Ka1 Bxd2 20.Rxd2 Qxh1+, 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