Saturday, August 13, 2011

Needles and Pins



Here is the latest Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc3 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game (with notes) from Bill Wall. He does make it all look so simple.





Rick,

I was on pins and needles (well, mostly pins) with this game. It does look like the pin is stronger than the sword in the Jerome Gambit.

Wall,B - XCCY
FICS, 2011

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


4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6


7.f4 Qf6 8.Rf1


Pin; 8.fxe5 Qf2+ 9.Kd1 Qxg2

8...g6 9.Qh3+ Ke7


Not 9...Kf7?? 10.fxe5, pin.

10.Nc3

Threatening 11.Nd5, fork.

10...c6 11.fxe5 Qxe5 12.d3 Nf6 13.Qh4


Pin on the Knight.

13...Bd4 14.Bg5

Pin.

14...Bxc3+ 15.bxc3 Qxc3+ 16.Ke2 Qxc2+ 17.Bd2 Qb2?


18.Rxf6! Qxf6 19.Bg5

pin

19...Rf8 20.Bxf6+ Rxf6 21.e5


pin

Black resigned





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