Jim West On Chess: Monokroussos on PCG @ ChessCube

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Monokroussos on PCG @ ChessCube

For $2.50 at ChessCube, you can purchase a video by FM Dennis Monokroussos on the Philidor Counter Gambit. I downloaded it today.

Monokroussos recommends the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Neg5, avoiding the "timid" 6.Ng3 and the "rash" 6.Nxe5.

"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