JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Part 8)

 

JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Part 8)

(by Yury V. Bukayev)

As a further development of my Part 2 (the post of October, 16, 2020 on Rick Kennedy’s blog), this continuation of my theoretical research on the standard line of the Jerome gambit (JG) is about another White’s good way after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qh3+! Ke7 8.Qc3!? Bxf2+!? 9.Kxf2!? Qf8+. Thus, White can play 10.Ke1!? N [This my new invention allows to prevent a rapid counter attack: there will be no Black’s rapid check from the square g4.] 10…Qf4 11.Qb4+ [The ways 11.Qa3+ d6 12.Nc3! and 11.Qc5+ Kd8 12.Nc3! d6 13.Qb5 are good too.] 11…d6 12.Nc3!. It maybe, it’s the strongest White’s way after 7…Ke7. White’s main threat is here 13.Nd5, but White has else threats: 13.d4, 13.d3.

For example, after 12…c6 White can get a strong attack: 13.d4 [13.d3 is possible too.] 13…Qh4+ 14.g3 Nf3+ 15.Kf2 Qf6! 16.e5! Nxe5+ 17.Bf4! Nf7 [17…Ng6? 18.Ne4!] 18.Rhe1+ [18.Rae1+ and 18.Ne4 are possible too.] 18…Kd7 19.Ne4!. Black has an extra Knight, but White stands better.

Here we start to think that Black’s counter attack 8…Bxf2+!? isn’t ultra-strong theoretically, it maybe, but it isn’t clear yet. In any case, here White keeps very good practical chances to fight, and it’s a very strong argument for your cautious opponent to prefer 7…Kf7 8.Qh5+ to 7…Ke7.

Of course, the Natural star Jerome gambit deferred (the strong deferred line of JG) will be much more attractive for a lot of experts of the modern chess opening theory than the standard line of JG, but the defence 6…Ke6 after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ requires their new attention and large revision already now, we can understand.