Jim West On Chess: 15/10 PCG 9/28/2020

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

15/10 PCG 9/28/2020

Philidor Counter Gambit

HK49 (Chess.com 1742) - JimWest (Chess.com 1897), Chess.com 9/28/2020

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.dxe5 fxe4 5.Ng5 d5 6.e6 Bc5 7.Nf7 Qf6

8.f4 exf3 9.gxf3 Qxe6+ 10.Qe2 Qxe2+, White resigns.

"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