Monday, November 8, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Adding to the Bullet



Yury V. Bukayev adds some more to the report on two online bullet games between top GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ("LyonBeast") and top GM Hikaru Nakamura (" Hikaru ") - see "Jerome Gambit: Modern Top GM Interest's Origins (Parts 12)".

There is coverage of the second game, from 2020, in the YouTube video "Nakamura vs MVL | Speed Chess Championship Final | Peter Leko & Tania Sachdev" (time mark 3:44:00 untill 3:46:20).

Commenting on the Hamppe-Muzio variation of the Vienna Gambit as it was played, GM Leko says "It's not going to work, and anyway even if by a miracle it would work, it would not bring anything..." He is reflecting upon the fact that GM Nakamura was too far ahead in the match at that point for a win to matter.

As Yury pointed out earlier, the opening line did work the first time the two players contested it, in 2016, and GM Vachier-Lagrave won. In the 2020 game covered in the video, GM Nakamura improved upon his play and took the full point.


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