Jim West On Chess: PCG with 4.d3 Nc6 5.O-O f4

Saturday, May 21, 2022

PCG with 4.d3 Nc6 5.O-O f4

Philidor Counter Gambit

vaiCheb0a (lichess 2430) - CM ArnieChipmunk (lichess 2466), lichess 5/21/2022

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5 4.d3 Nc6 5.O-O f4

6.h3 g5 7.g4 h5 8.Nh2 Nf6 9.Kg2 hxg4 10.Nxg4 Rxh3

11.Kxh3 Bxg4+ 12.Qxg4 Nxg4 13.Kxg4 Qd7+ 14.Kf3 Nd4+ 15.Kg2 Qg4+ 16.Kh2 Nf3+, 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