Jim West On Chess: Westfield Quads 1/11/2015

Monday, January 12, 2015

Westfield Quads 1/11/2015

On Sunday, all four players tied for first in the top quad at Westfield.

Round One: Pirc Defense

Mark Kernighan (USCF 2202) - Jim West (USCF 2209), Westfield NJ 1/11/2015

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nbd2 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.c3 O-O 6.Bc4 c6 7.O-O Nxe4 8.Nxe4 d5 9.Bd3 dxe4 10.Bxe4 Nd7 11.Bg5 Nf6 12.Bd3 Bg4 13.Re1 Qd5

14.Bh4 Bxf3 15.Qxf3 Qxf3 16.gxf3 Nd5 17.Bg5 e6 18.Rad1 Rfe8 19.Bc1 Rad8 20.Bc2 Bf8 21.Re2 Bd6 22.Re4 Nf6 23.Ree1 Nh5 24.Re4 Nf6 25.Ree1 Nh5 26.Re4, 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