Wednesday, March 11, 2009

If I write all this, and someone reads it...

If I write all this (today is my 250th daily post to this blog, by my count) and someone reads it and remembers it, doesn't it mean that one of these days my Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e4 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) will meet a misfortune of my own doing?

perrypawnpusher - DysonLin
blitz 14 0, FICS 2009 

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6 Even though I am giving "Jerome Gambit odds" here, my opponent quickly finds a safe and effective defense.

7.Qd5+ Kf8 8.Qxc5+ d6 9.Qe3 Nf6
This certainly looks good for the second player, and he has the standard advantage against the Jerome.

10.0-0 

Avoiding the "oops" that smoothmoves06 experienced after 10.f4 Nxe4

10...Kf7 11.f4 Re8
Not bad, not bad at all: now he gets ready to castle-by-hand. Perhaps he is familiar with the jeromegambit.blogspot.com blog? 

12.f5 Ne5 13.Nc3 Only here does the game break from Vazquez - Carrington, 2nd match, 1876: 13.d4Neg4 14.Qb3+ Kf8 15.h3 Rxe4 16.hxg4 Rxg4 17.Qf3 c6 18.Nc3 d5 19.Bf4 Kg8 20.Be5 h5 21.Rae1 Bd7 22.Re3 Qb6 23.b3 Rf8 24.Na4 Qb4 25.Nc5 Bc8 26.c3 Qb6 27.Bxf6 gxf6 28.Qh3 Rg5 29.Ne6 Bxe6 30.fxe6 Qc7 31.e7 Re8 32.Qe6+ Kh8 33.Qxf6+ Rg7 34.Qf8+ Black resigns 

13...Nc4 14.Qd4 Ne5 15.d3 Kg8 Mission accomplished.

16.Bg5 h6 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Qd5+ Be6 Now my opponent resorts to the standard return-the-piece-for-pawns defensive maneuver. What to do, what to do, what to do?

19.fxe6 c6 20.e7+ Using a strategy of my own: moving into a pawns-up endgame. It appears to have surprised DysonLin, who then, unfortunately and unfairly, makes Black's first real mis-step of the game.
20...Kg7 21.exd8Q Raxd8 22.Qd4 c5 23.Qf2 Black resigns

Keep reading. You'll get me next time.

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