Jim West On Chess: Quick Draw in PCG

Friday, August 10, 2007

Quick Draw in PCG

Lev Zilbermintz recently played the following quick draw in the Philidor Counter Gambit. The position after 3.Bc4 f5 is also known as the Lopez Counter Gambit.

IM Vojislav Milanovic (ICC 2404) - Lev Zilbermintz (ICC 2106), Internet Chess Club 7/28/2007

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 f5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Nc3 c6 6. Bb3 Na6 7. h3, 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