Monday, July 19, 2021

Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit Report Card (Part 4)

 


Here we go again. This post is another in a series developed after I stopped by the lichess.com website and examined a number of Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 4.Bxf7+) games, only to see that White had scored 1 - 7 in those matches.

I wanted to find out how many of those games were because of information that was missing or overlooked at this site.


Bonaventure - Osvaldo1
1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2021

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

4.Bxf7+ 


The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.

I have pointed out that Black can often "solve" the various Jerome lines if he has enough time - but often he does not.

The games are usually complicated, which means that White has to be careful of his time, as well.

That is his problem in this game. White does well and plays hard - he just runs out of time, first. This is not really the fault of the information present on this blog. 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Nxg6 Nf6 8.Qe5+ Ne6 9.Nxh8 Bg7 10.Nf7 Kxf7 11.O-O Qe7 12.c3 d6 13.Qb5 a6 14.Qe2 Bd7 15.d4 Rg8 16.e5 dxe5 17.dxe5 Nd5 18.Qh5+ Kf8 19.f4 h6 20.f5 Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Ng5 22.e6 Nxe6 23.fxe6+ Ke7 24.Qf7+ Kd6 25.Qxd7+ Ke5 26.c4 Bf6 27.cxd5 Qc4 28.Bf4+ Ke4 29.Nc3+
Kd3 30.Rad1+ Kc2 31.Qa4+ Kxb2 Black won on time

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