Jim West On Chess: Marshall Memorial Day Action 5/29/2017

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Marshall Memorial Day Action 5/29/2017

On Monday, I finished with a score of 2-1-1 plus two half point byes in the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.

Round Five: Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation

Jim West (USCF 2212) - Narahari Bharadwaj (USCF 2065), Marshall Chess Club 5/29/2017

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.O-O Bd6 6.d4 exd4 7.Qxd4 f6 8.Nbd2 Be6 9.Nc4 Bxh2+ 10.Kxh2 Qxd4 11.Nxd4 Bxc4 12.Re1 O-O-O 13.Be3 Ne7 14.b3 Bf7 15.c4 c5

16.Nf5 Nxf5 17.exf5 b6 18.Rad1 Rxd1 19.Rxd1 Rd8 20.Rxd8+ Kxd8 21.Kg3 Kd7 22.Kf4 Kc6 23.Ke4 b5 24.Kd3 g6 25.Bh6 gxf5, 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