Jim West On Chess: Marshall Saturday Game/60 4/1/2017

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Marshall Saturday Game/60 4/1/2017

On Saturday, I finished with a score of 2-0-2 in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round One: Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation

Jim West (USCF 2211) - Katherene Qi (USCF 1878), Marshall Chess Club 4/1/2017

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 Be7 8.f4 O-O 9.Be3 Nbd7 10.Qf3 Nc5

11.f5 exf5 12.Nxf5 Ncxe4 13.Nh6+ gxh6 14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.Qxe4 Bh4+ 16.g3 Re8 17.Bxf7+ Kxf7 18.Qxh7+ Kf8 19.O-O+, Black 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