Jim West On Chess: Morphy's PCG Games

Monday, May 19, 2008

Morphy's PCG Games

Not counting a couple of consultation games, Paul Morphy played the Philidor Counter Gambit on three occasions. His record with the PCG was 2 wins and 1 draw in individual contests, and 1 win and 1 draw in consultation games.

Here are Morphy's wins against Barnes and Bird, as well as his draw against Boden.

"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