Showing posts with label Sanket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sanket. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

The Long and the Short of It




Bill Wall has collected his games into one file - not quite 45,000 matches, an impressive number. Of course, there are many Jerome Gambit (and related) games in there, some of which are new to me, and which I will be sharing in future posts. Of particular interest are some games against computer chess engines - always risky affairs.

For now, the following quick game revisits a line last looked at in "One Thing Leads To Another".

Wall,B - Sanket
Chess.com, 2015

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 



The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

4.Bxf7+ 

The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke7 

6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Nf3 

This position is still quite rare in The Database - two games.

7...Nc6 

Or 7...Nxf3+ 8.Qxf3 d6 9.d4 Bg4 10.Qf4 Bh5 11.e5 dxe5 12.dxe5 Nd5 13.Qh4+ Nf6 14.exf6+ gxf6 15.Qxh5 Black resigned, Wall,B  -Chrissti, PlayChess.com, 2015. 

8.e5 Ng8 9.d4 h6 10.d5 Nb4 11.a3 Black resigned




No surprise: Losing the Knight on b4 is only part of the problem for the defender; the more that you look at the position, the greater the danger to Black's King grows.