Jim West On Chess: From Chess.com with Lev

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

From Chess.com with Lev

Candidate master Lev Zilbermintz [pictured] won this blitz game in the Newark Gambit variation of the PCG.

Philidor Counter Gambit

Kavalerik (Chess.com 2186) - Lev Zilbermintz (Chess.com 2116), Chess.com 11/5/2016

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5 4.d4 b5 5.Bxb5+ c6 6.Bc4 fxe4 7.Nxe5 dxe5 8.Qh5+ Kd7

9.Bxg8 Rxg8 10.Qf7+ Be7 11.dxe5 Kc7 12.Bf4 Rf8 13.e6+ Kb7 14.Qxg7 Rxf4 15.Nd2 Bxe6 16.O-O-O Qf8 17.Qxh7 Qf7 18.Qh6 Nd7 19.Nb3 Rf8

20.Rhe1 Qf6 21.Qh5 Qg5 22.Rxd7+ Bxd7 23.Nc5+ Kc7, 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