Monday, September 3, 2012

Trapped Times Two



The latest game from Bill Wall (with notes by him):
I played an interesting Jerome Gambit yesterday, and with a little luck I won in 22 moves.  I sort of trapped his king and queen at the same time.

Wall,B - Guest327668
Playchess.com, 2012

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 



4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6 



7.Qd5+ Ke8 8.Qxc5 d6 9.Qb5+ 

[As seen in Wall - Yunfan, Chess.com, 2011, (1-0, 18) and Wall - Zhu, Chess.com, 2011, (1-0, 19) - Rick]

9...Qd7 10.Qe2 Nf6 

11.d4 Qg4 12.f3 Qh4+ 13.g3 Qh5 14.Nc3 c6 



15.e5 dxe5 16.0-0 Bh3 

I expected that.  Perhaps better is 16...Kf7, threatening 17...exd4.

17.Re1 Kf7 

 Or 17...Rf8 18.dxe5 Nd7.

18.Ne4

I wanted him to move the f6 Knight so I could get in g4 and not have hims sac to open up my king.  I wasn't sure about 18.dxe5 Rhe8 19.f4 Bg4.


18...Nxe4 19.g4


This looked better than 19.Qxe4 exd4 and I am in trouble.


19...Qh4


The only place for the Queen and it seems trapped and out of play.  I thought I could hold after 19...Bxg4 20.fxg4 Qh4 21.Qxe4.


20.Qc4+


Better than 20.Qxe4 Rhe8 21.Qf5+ Qf6.

20...Kf6 

The king has to move somewhere.  Perhaps better is 20...Ke8 21.Rxe4 Rf8.

21.Rxe4

I almost played 21.dxe5+ Nxe5 22.Qxe4, but Black has 22...Qxe1+! 23.Qxe1 Nxf3+ and Black wins. 

21...Rhe8? 22.g5+ and Black resigned  

If  22...Kf5, then 23.Qf7 mate.  Black could hold out a little bit more with 22...Ke7 23.Rxh4 Nxh4 24.dxe5 Nxf3+ 25.Kh1, then 26.Qb4+, but White should win this.

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