Thanks to this Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) blog, every day I learn something new.
Recently I received an email from Hüseyn Əkbərov, who has tried out playing a Jerome-inspired opening in the "crazyhouse" chess variant at lichess.org.
Here is some starting information about Crazyhouse that I found at Wikipedia:
All the rules and conventions of standard chess apply, with the addition of drops, as explained below.
A captured piece reverses color and goes to the capturing player's reserve, pocket or bank. At any time, instead of making a move with a piece on the board, a player can drop a piece from their reserve (a piece in there is considered “held” or “in hand”) onto an empty square on the board.
Let's look at short game.
Nyes - aylinal
10 0 crazyhouse, lichess.org, 2021
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6
The Semi-Italian opening.
4.Bxf7+
One of the variations I have referred to as an "impatient Jerome Gambit" as White sacrifices the Bishop before Black plays ...Bc5.
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6
Instead of moving a piece, White drops a captured pawn - that has changed sides - onto the f5 square.
7...Kd6 8.P@c5+
Again, instead of moving a piece, White drops a captured pawn - that has changed sides - onto the c5 square.
8...Kxc5 9.f6 Qxf6 10.d4 Kxd4
Very interesting!
(By the way, Stockfish 12 has been modified at lichess.org in order to analyze crazyhouse. I haven't added its annotations to this game, but I have to mention that its recommendation for Black on move 6 was to drop a Knight - captured from White, changing colors - onto g6.)
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