Thursday, March 29, 2012

Still Nothing Going On


If yesterday's Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game seemed a bit odd, what to make of the following one, where the same player of the White pieces reprises his unusual opening schema, this time against a player only about 250 points higher than himself.

Again, hostilities cease rapidly.

MAILMANUK - callipygian
blitz, FICS, 2002

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


4...Kxf7 5.d4 exd4 6.Ng5+ Kg6 7.h4


Black now defends, and White comes to the same abrupt end.

7...Qe7 8.h5+ Kh6 9.Nf7 checkmate

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