Jim West On Chess: PCG on "YouTube"

Sunday, April 20, 2008

PCG on "YouTube"

Recently ChessTheBlitzer posted a 8:41 minute video on YouTube in which the narrator recommends either 4.dxe5 or 4.exf5, after the opening moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5.

Without any supporting analysis being given, the narrator states that White gets no advantage after 4.Nc3.

"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