Jerome Gambit: Analysis Leads the Way (Part 2)

 

[continued from the previous post]

Yury_V_Bukayev - WaleraG

30 0 rapid, Chess.com, 2021

15.Qb5

The Chess.com computer labels this a MISTAKE, but you can tell from its recommendation - 15.Qxc7+ Kxc7 16.Nd5+ Kc6 17.Nxf4 - that it is not thinking like a Jerome Gambit player. White's goal is to complicate, not simplify, and certainly not to exchange Queens without just cause.

15...Qg4

Once again, the computer complains that this is an INACCURACY as Black should have played 15...Qh4+ 16. g3 Nf3+ 17.Kd1 Qh3 causing White to play 18.Qf1 and of course, soon exchanging Queens.

I would like to know how much the clock figured into the rest of the defender's play.

16.Rf1 Qh4+ 17.g3 Qe7 

The computer fusses: BLUNDER 

Yury notes 

I agree that 17...Qh5 was better than 17...Qe7, but I disagree that 17...Qe7 was a blunder: in fact, after 18.Nd5! Black can play not only 18...c6!?, but also 18...a6, where Black's play is much easier

18.Nd5 c6 19.Qa5+ b6 20.Nxb6 Qc7 

The last comment allowed the computer to make: BLUNDER and Critical mistake. 

Notes by Yury, after 20...axb6 21.Qxa8! the position is complicated and unclear.

 21.Rf8+

I suppose this is what the computer was trying to warn about.

21...Ke7 22.Nd5+ cxd5 23.Qxc7+ Kxf8 24.Qxd6+ Black resigned

Sometimes Jerome gambit games are very beautiful, but blunders are psychologically sudden there mostly excluding a lack of time. Here Black's alone blunder was, probably, a result of his tiredness from a long White's attack with unceasing creating of new threats.