Jim West On Chess: Fierro

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Fierro - Zilbermintz

Lev Zilbermintz showed me the score to this chess miniature played by him against Women's Grandmaster Martha Fierro in a game/30 simul that she gave on 8/6/2006 at the Internet Chess Club.

C41 Philidor Counter Gambit
Martha Fierro (WGM) - Lev Zilbermintz
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.dxe5 fxe4 5.Ng5 d5 6.e6 Nh6 7.c4 Bb4+ 8.Nc3 d4 9.Qh5+ g6 10.Qxh6 dxc3 11.Qg7 c2+ 12.Ke2 Qd3#.

"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