Jim West On Chess: End of an Error

Saturday, May 26, 2007

End of an Error

I should have known better than to get into a debate with Dennis Monokroussos on the Philidor Counter Gambit. At times, it reminded me of the saying that there are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth!

I sense that he has grown weary of it, and so have I. The last word in all such arguments goes to the chessboard. I will continue to plead my case in favor of the PCG over the board, not over the blogs. Any future tournament games of mine in this line that are of theoretical interest will be passed on to readers of my blog.

So is the PCG playable? I keep playing it!

"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