Friday, May 28, 2010

A Short Wall(k)

Bill Wall (see "Welcome to the World of Wall") likes short chess games. One way to find them is to play them himself, even using the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+). 

Wall,B - Qwerty
Chess.com, 2010

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+


4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8


One of Black's more interesting defenses to the Jerome Gambit involves not capturing the Knight on e5 – see "In the Beginning..." and "Critical Line: 5...Kf8 Parts 1, 2, 3 and Revisited" – but Black's King is much safer on f8 than he is on e8.

6.Nxc6

This move is stronger and more thematic than the otherwise Jerome-ish 6.Qh5+.

6...bxc6


According to Rybka, Black's best here is 6...Qh4, and play may continue 7.d4 Bb6 8.Nb4 Qxe4+ 9.Qe2 Qxe2+ 10.Kxe2 Bxd4 11.Nd5 Kd8 with a slight edge to White.

With Black's King on f8, the capture 6...dxc6 would maintain Black's advantage. That doesn't work well with the King on e8, however: 7.Qh5+ Kf8 8.Qxc5+ Qd6 9.Qe3 Nf6 10.e5 Ng4 11.Qf4+ Black resigned, Wall,B - Gebba, Chess.com, 2010.

7.Qh5+ g6 8.Qxc5


Further research might focus on the game chesspsychoten - fao, FICS, 2002, and the thematic move 8.Qe5+!? which produces a modified and successful version of an attack on the Whistler Defense: 8...Qe7 9.Qxh8 Qxe4+ 10.Kf1 Qe6 11.Qxh7 Qf6 12.Qxg8+ Ke7 13.f3? Ba6+ White resigned.

8...Ne7

Or 8...d6 9.Qe3 Nf6 10.Nc3 Ng4 11.Qg3 Ne5 12.d4 Nc4 13.b3 Na3 14.Bxa3 Ba6 15.0-0-0 Rb8 16.e5 Rf8 17.exd6 cxd6 18.Rhe1+ Kd7 19.Qxd6+ Kc8 20.Qxc6+ Qc7 21.Qxa6+ Kd7 22.Qe6+ Kd8 23.Bxf8 Qxh2 24.Qc6 Qxg2 25.Re8 checkmate, perrypawnpusher - rodrigojalpa, blitz FICS, 2008.

9.Qc3


Black resigned. Two pawns down, King stuck in the middle of the board, no counter-play: he's had enough.



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