Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Punishment Like A Lightning Bolt

The following game is another lightning affair from shugart at FICS. Both sides play relatively calmly - after White starts with the Jerome Gambit, of course - and then at one point Black slips. Punishment strikes light a lightning bolt.

shugart - kisa
1 2 lightning, FICS, 2017

 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.Qe3 Nf6 10.O-O Qe7 



11.d3 Kf7 12.f4 Re8 13.Nc3 c6 14.b3 Kg8 



15.Ba3 c5 16.Rae1 b6 17.Qg3 Bb7 18.Bb2 



18...Nh5 19.Qg4 Qh4 20.Qf3 

Continuing with the theme of trapped knights that we have seen in recent posts (see "Jerome Gambit: Quirky" and "Jerome Gambit: Beware the Calm After the Storm"), White had 20.Qxh4 Nxh4 21.f5 d5 22.g3 Nf6 23.gxh4 dxe4 24.dxe4 Nxe4 with an equal game.

20...Nf6 

21.g3 Qh5 22.Qg2 Qg4 23.Nd1 h5 24.Ne3 Qd7 


25.f5 Ne5 26.Qe2 g6 

Oops.

27.fxg6 Nxg6 28.Rxf6 Black resigned


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