Jim West On Chess: Improvements for Black in Treger

Friday, March 20, 2009

Improvements for Black in Treger - West

At his Contre Gambit Philidor blog, Frederic Fournier provides a couple of links to recent posts of mine that include games where I successfully played the PCG.

The above diagram shows the position after Yefim Treger's 15.Rxe4. I played the incorrect 15...Bf5 16.Ra4 a6 after which Treger missed the win of a pawn by 17.Rb1. On move fifteen, Black could have improved by 15...b5, 15...g6, or even 15...Bd7 with the idea of 16...Bc6.

"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