Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Jerome Gambit: Application; One More Thing



In considering the Jerome Gambit-like sacrificial line that we looked at in the previous post, focusing on the game  DylanYuIM - d52276ev, 10 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2022 (1-0, 10), it is useful to add a link to an article on "Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day" by Yury V. Bukayev, which covers related play

 It is necessary to add here, that there is the same situation in C50 Hungarian defence! Thus, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7 4.d3 h6!? 5.d4!AN ed!? we can have the following: 6.c3!? [Of course, the move 6.Nd4 is good.] 6…Na5? [It realizes white’s trap. Black must play 6…Nf6! 7.e5 Nh7!] 7.Bf7! [the pawn h6 (instead of pawn h7) makes black’s position weak here too] Kf7 8.Ne5 with a very strong winning attack, that is analogous mostly to Bukayev Jerome counter gambit. It is analogous to 3…Bc5 4.0-0 h6?? AN 5.b4!, that the variation 3…Be7 4.0-0 h6?? AN 5.d4! etc. (White wins.) and similar variations of C50 Hungarian defence are not important for theory, because h7-h6 is here a useless, unlogical response. But the move 4…h6!? is useful, logical after 4.d3 here too. 

By  the way, to look at Yury's coverage of the Bukayev Jerome counter gambit, mentioned above, as well as links to other analyses he has assembled, you can check out this earlier post.

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