DVYate - melazzini
FICS, 2017
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4
The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.
4. Bxf7+
The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.
(Certainly White can play 4.0-0, 4.Nxd4 or 4.c3 instead, with advantage.)
4...Kxf7 5. Nxe5+ Ke8
The Database has 2,256 games with this move. White scores 58%.
"Best" seems to be 5...Ke6.
6.Qh5+ g6
Likewise, The Database has 1,356 games with this move. White still scores 58%.
7. Nxg6 Bg7
This Bishop moves seems, at first glance, to be a practical response - arranging to capture White's Knight after it takes the Rook at h8.
There are three things wrong with this move, however: the game continuation, the recommendation in the notes, and the straight-forward capture 7...hxg6 (best).
8.Nxh8+
At the very least White is now going to wind up ahead a Rook and 4 pawns. That is more than enough.
However, in all fairness, he also had the King hunt 8.Ne5+ Ke7 9.Qf7+ Kd6 10.Nc4+ Kc5 11.Qd5+ Kb4 12.a3+ Ka4 13.Nc3 checkmate.
8...Kf8
Holding out longer is 8...Ke7, but why bother?
9.Qf7 checkmate
