Jim West On Chess: Another PCG Victory Against IM

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Another PCG Victory Against IM

NM Rohan Agarwal has been victorious against two international masters with the Philidor Counter Gambit. Besides winning against IM Emory Tate at the North American Open in December 2008, Agarwal also defeated IM Ricardo De Guzman at the Mechanics Masters in September 2007.

"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