Jim West On Chess: Marshall FIDE Mondays 8/22/2016

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Marshall FIDE Mondays 8/22/2016

On Monday, at the Marshall Chess Club, I claimed a draw by third occurrence of position after my intended 11.Bg5.

Round Five: Sicilian Defense, Kalashnikov Variation

Jim West (FIDE 2045) - Karan Bhatty (FIDE 2102), Marshall Chess Club 8/22/2016

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.Be3 Nf6

7.Bg5 Qa5+ 8.Bd2 Qd8 9.Bg5 Qa5+ 10.Bd2 Qd8, 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