The top GM World Champion Magnus Carlsen (White) in his Game 6 against the top GM Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi after 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. b3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. c4 dxc4 9. Qc2 Qe7 played 10. Nbd2? - not only a weak gambit, but also a handicap gambit, in fact. Of course, Black should play here 10...cxb3!, and White's compensation is too little. But the Challenger played 10...Nc6?! instead, after his enough long thinking. The result of this game is "1:0". All these facts can create the new chess opening fashion - to play handicap gambits in very serious GM - GM games.
This new chess fashion can make all modern handicap gambits (including Jerome gambit, its weak deferred and weak related lines) very popular on the grandmaster level too.
Probably, the Challenger doesn't read the blog jeromegambit.blogspot.com , because in his Game 8 (Black) against the World Champion he hasn't thought about opponent's pawn f2. Thus, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Nxe5 Nd7 6.Nxd7 Bxd7 (Petrov defence, C43) Mr. Carlsen's 7.Nd2!? can be met by 7...Qh4! AN with ...0-0-0! as a part of the further plan. In any case, I suggest Mr. Nepomniachtchi to start reading this blog, because it can help him on the continuous World Chess Championship 2021 and not only on it!
I thank Mr. Carlsen for his very brave gambits on this World Championship. It maybe, he reads this blog sometimes, it maybe, he has studied a handicap gambit psychology here. In any case, this new chess fashion is an interesting fact, which can lead to a large development of theory of such "psychological" gambits in future.
Note 1: Author’s theoretical novelties-moves are marked by the symbol “AN”.
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