Killer

In "Keep the shilling" we saw the latest play in a Jerome-ized Blackburne Shilling Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4). The following game looks like a killer at first glance – but examination raises the question: for whom?

dubnikova - hubris
redhotpawn, 2009

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4

4.Bxf7+ 4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke6 6.Qg4+ Kxe5 7.f4+ Kxe4 8.Nc3 checkmate

Wow.

Now, instead of the grabby 7...Kxe4, play 7...Kd6.

Uh oh.

After 8.Na3 Kc6 9.c3 d5, things are deteriorating fast – for White.