Jim West On Chess: 10/5 PCG 3/13/2021

Sunday, March 14, 2021

10/5 PCG 3/13/2021

Philidor Counter Gambit

M-it (lichess 2232) - JimWest (lichess 2302), lichess 3/13/2021

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.dxe5 fxe4 5.Ng5 d5 6.c4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 Qxg5 8.Bxb4 d4 9.Qxd4 Nc6 10.Qc5 Nxb4 11.Qxb4 Qc1+ 12.Ke2 Bg4+ 13.f3 exf3+ 14.gxf3 O-O-O

15.fxg4 Qd1+ 16.Kf2 Nh6 17.h3 Rhf8+ 18.Kg3 Qf3+ 19.Kh2 Qf4+ 20.Kg2 Qf2#.

"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