Jim West On Chess: 10/5 PCG Reversed 8/17/2022

Thursday, August 18, 2022

10/5 PCG Reversed 8/17/2022

Philidor Counter Gambit Reversed

JimWest (lichess 2125) - Larrycot (lichess 2082), lichess 8/17/2022

1.e3 e5 2.e4 Nf6 3.d3 d5 4.f4 dxe4 5.fxe5 Ng4 6.d4 e3 7.Bc4 Nf2 8.Qf3 Qe7 9.Bxe3 Nxh1 10.Nc3 c6 11.O-O-O b5

12.Bxb5 Bb7 13.Ba4 Qc7 14.Nge2 Nd7 15.Bb3 Nb6 16.Rxh1 Bb4 17.Rf1 O-O-O

18.Qxf7 Rhf8 19.Qxc7+ Kxc7 20.Rf7+ Rxf7 21.Bxf7 Rf8 22.e6 Kd6 23.Ne4+ Kd5 24.N2c3+ Bxc3 25.Nxc3+ Kc4 26.e7+ Rxf7 27.e8=Q Rf1+ 28.Kd2 Nd5, Black 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