Friday, August 28, 2020

Jerome Gambit: Enthusiast


I received a number of games from a Jerome Enthusiast. There are some short ones in the notes, but the longest one has a very nice checkmate.

Anonymous - Anonymous
Chess.com, 2020

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 

Also: 3...Nf6 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.d4 Ng6 7.e5 Qe8 (7...Nd5 8.Qf3+ Ngf4 9.Bxf4 Nxf4 10.Qxf4+ Kg8 11.d5 d6 12.e6 c6 13.Qf7 checkmate, Anonymous - Anonymous, Chess.com, 2020) 8.O-O Nd5 9.Qf3+ Kg8 10.Qxd5+ Qf7 11.Nc3 Qxd5 12.Nxd5 c6 13.Nc7 Rb8 14.f4 d6 15.f5 Bxf5 16.Rxf5 Rc8 17.Ne6 dxe5 18.Be3 Ne7 19.Rf2 exd4 20.Bxd4 b6 21.Raf1 Ng6 22.Rf7 a5 23.Nxf8 Rxf8 24.Rxg7 checkmate, Anonymous - Anonymous, Chess.com, 2020; and 

3...h6 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 (5...Nxe5 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Nd5 Bc5 8.d4 Black resigned, Anonymous - Anonymous, Chess.com, 2020) 6.Qh5+ Black resigned, Anonymous - Anonymous, Chess.com, 2020. 

4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5. Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6 


7.Qd5+ Kf8 8.Qxc5+ d6 9.Qe3 Nf6 


A normal Jerome Gambit position. There are 130 games with it in The Database. Black has the extra piece, White has 2 extra pawns. White's King is safer.

10.O-O Kf7 11.f4 Re8 12.Qb3+

To interrupt Black's plan of castling-by-hand.

12... d5


Or 12...Kf8 13.d3 b6 14.c4 c5 15.Nc3 Kg8 16.Bd2 Rf8 17.Rab1 Nh5 18.f5 Ne5 19.Qd1 Qe8 20.Nb5 Qe7 21.Qxh5 Black resigned, Anonymous - Anonymous, Chess.com, 2020.

13.Nc3 c6 14.d3 Kf8 15.f5 Ne5 16.d4 Ned7 17.e5 


The "Jerome pawns" in action! It was probably time for Black to return his piece for two pawns, with 17...Nxe5 18.dxe5 Rxe5 and a roughly equal game. His response, however, gives him a loose pawn at e4, and allows further "Jerome pawn" action.

17...Ne4 18.Nxe4 dxe4 19.Qg3 Qb6 20.f6 


20...g6 21.f7 Re7 22.Bh6 checkmate







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