Jim West On Chess: 10/5 PCG 5/1/2021

Sunday, May 2, 2021

10/5 PCG 5/1/2021

Philidor Counter Gambit

mrandrew94 (lichess 2327) - JimWest (lichess 2274), lichess 5/1/2021

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Bc4 Nc6

5.O-O fxe4 6.dxe5 exf3 7.Qxf3 Nxe5 8.Re1 Nf6 9.Bf4 Be7 10.Nc3 Nxf3+, 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