Jim West On Chess: Muzio Gambit Line against PCG

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Muzio Gambit Line against PCG

In this game, White attempts unsuccessfully to defeat the Philidor Counter Gambit with an idea from the Muzio Gambit.

"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