Jim West On Chess: Philidors Gegenangriff

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Philidors Gegenangriff

To Atomic Patzer, I would like to say, "Danke schone!"

My fellow blogger has provided me with links to an article by Maurits Wind on the Philidor Counter Gambit in the April-June 2007 issue of the German chess magazine Kaissiber.

You can click here on the first page, the second page, and the third page. On the third page, Atomic Patzer has highlighted a reference to the second edition of my book on the PCG.

Auf wiedersehen!

"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