This post is the next-to-last in a series of posts 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.
How much help would those players have found for their BSJG play, had they visited this blog beforehand? I wondered...
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10 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2021
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4
The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.
4.Bxf7+
The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.
4...Kxf7 5.O-O
If you read yesterday's post, you will not be surprised by what I have to say now.
Although there are only 10 other examples of this move in The Database, if you were to search the 3,365 previous blog posts here, you would have found absolutely nothing on this line.
True, the move is contrary to the whole idea of the BSJG, and almost every single game that I have posted (hint, hint) has continued 5.Nxe5+, but when it comes to helping the opening explorer - this blog wasn't. (The lack of specific knowledge was not the decisive factor deciding the game, but things might have taken a different turn.)
The game continued in interesting fashion.
5...Nxf3+ 6.Qxf3+ Qf6 7.Qb3+ Ke8 8.d3 Bc5 9.Be3 Bb6 10.Bxb6 axb6
Black has the advantage of a piece for a pawn. The game lacks the usual attack on Black's King, so White develops carefully and waits for his chance.
11.Nd2 Ne7 12.c3 d6 13.f3 Be6
14.Rf2
A blitz oversight.
14...Bxb3 15.axb3 White resigned
Sigh.
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