Jim West On Chess: How Not to Play the PCG

Monday, November 5, 2007

How Not to Play the PCG

At Frederic Fournier's blog Contre Gambit Philidor, there is a good example of how not to play the Philidor Counter Gambit. Games like this give the PCG a bad name!

The correct way to handle this sharp variation was shown in Piorun-Markowski, Polish Championship 3/25/2006.

"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