Over/Under

I have to wonder exactly what an OverwiseMan would think about playing against an under-wise chess opening like the Jerome Gambit...


perrypawnpusher - OverwiseMan
blitz, FICS, 2010

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

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6

Earlier my opponent had tried 6...Ke6 against me in perrypawnpusher - OverwiseMan, blitz, FICS, 2010.

7.Qd5+ Ke8 8.Qxc5 d6 9.Qe3 Be6

Or 9...N8e7 as in perrypawnpusher - OverwiseMan, blitz, FICS, 2010.

10.0-0 Qf6

11.f4 Nh4

"Out of the frying pan and into the fire."

Instead, Wall,B - Parsom, Chess.com, 2010, continued 11...N6e7 12.d4 Bc4 13.Re1 Kd7 14.Na3 Ba6 15.b4 b6 16.c4 Re8 17.e5 dxe5 18.dxe5 Qe6 19.Qf3 Bxc4 20.Nxc4 Qxc4 21.e6+ Kd6 22.Bb2 Nc6 23.Rad1+ Ke7 24.Rd7+ Kf8 25.Bxg7 checkmate 

12.f5 Bd7 13.g3 Bxf5

Giving back the sacrificed piece seems like a reasonable idea, but Black should use the stranded Knight for that purpose, not the Bishop. Now he loses both.

14.exf5+ Kd7 15.gxh4 Re8

16.Qf4 g5 17.hxg5 Qe7 18.Nc3 h6 19.f6 Nxf6

Hoping that the opened line against White's King will give him counterplay.

20.gxf6 Rhg8+ 21.Kh1 Qe1

Black's idea: now if 22.Rxe1? Rxe1+ 23.Qf1 Rxf1 checkmate!

22.f7 Rg4 23.fxe8Q+ Kxe8 24.Rxe1+ Black resigned