Overheated

A new line in a defense to the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) doesn't cool things off, but, rather, puts the heat on Black's King...




perrypawnpusher - hotintheshade
blitz FICS, 2009

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6
7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.f4 Nh6
Haven't seen that move before.

9.Qxe5+ Kc6 10.Qd5+ Kb6


11.d4

If you can visualize (I couldn't at the time) 11.Nc3 followed by Na4+ and then the capture of the Black Bishop at c5, you can see that this isn't the strongest move for White. Rybka's suggested line of play, later, was much more complicated: 11.Qb3+ Kc6 12.a4 Qh4+ 13.g3 Qh5 14.Qb5+ Kd6 15.b4 Re8 16.Nc3 c6 17.Qxc5+ Qxc5 18.bxc5+ Kxc5 with advantage to White.

11...Bxd4
This capture puts hotintheshade's King in serious danger, whereas after 11...Bb4+ 12.c3 Bf8 it is not clear that White has anything more than checking his way repeatedly to a draw.

12.Qxd4+ c5

A multi-purpose move designed to block the check and give Black an escape square at c7. Unfortunatly, it also opens the possibility of a checkmate in 4 moves.

Against the better 12...Ka6, Rybka suggests 13.Qa4+ Kb6 14.Qb4+ Kc6 15.Qc3+ Kb6 16.Be3+ c5 17.Bxc5+ Ka6 18.Qd3+ b5 19.a4 Kb7 20.Qd5+ Kb8 21.Bd6+ Qc7 22.Bxc7+ Kxc7 23.Qxa8. Whew!

13.Qxg7
Readers will no doubt have seen the better: 14.Bd2+ Ka4 ( 14...Kb5 15.a4+ Kc4 16.Na3 checkmate) 15.b3+ Kb5 16.Na3 checkmate

13...Qf8 14.Qxf8 Rxf8 15.0-0 d6 16.Nc3 Bd7

White has a simple two-pawn advantage.

17.Nd5+ Kc6 18.Bd2 Rae8 19.Rae1 Be6 20.f5

Sloppy, as the pawn could simply be taken; but my opponent is taken in by my oversight.

20...Bxd5 21.exd5+ Kxd5 22.Bxh6 Rxe1 23.Rxe1 Rxf5

The rest of the game just plays itself out.

24.Re7 Kc6 25.Rxh7 Re5 26.Rf7 Re2 27.Rf2 Re6 28.Bf4 d5 29.h4 c4 30.Kf1 Kd7 31.Re2 Rf6 32.g3 d4 33.Re4 d3 34.cxd3 cxd3 35.Rd4+ Ke7 36.Rxd3 Kf7 37.Rd7+ Kg6 38.Rd6 Rxd6 39.Bxd6 Kh5 40.Kf2 Kg4 41.Bf4 a6

42.Ke3 Kf5 43.h5 Kf6 44.h6 Kg6 45.Kd4 b5 46.Kc5 Black resigns