Jim West On Chess: Two Newark Gambit Wins by Zilbermintz

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Two Newark Gambit Wins by Zilbermintz

In the April-September 2010 double issue of Atlantic Chess News, candidate master Lev Zilbermintz shows many of his blitz games in the Newark Gambit, the name given by Zilbermintz to the subvariation in the Philidor Counter Gambit after 4.Bc4 b5.

From the Internet Chess Club, here are two of Lev's victories against international masters. Both of them defeated Zilbermintz in other Newark Gambit blitz games.

"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