Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit: Lightning Fast


Longtime readers of this blog are familiar with angelcamina, who plays online at lichess.org. His specialty is lightning chess, and he has a taste for the Jerome Gambit and its relatives - in the case of the following game, the Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.

angelcamina - Vpkl
1 0 bullet, lichess,org, 2022

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

Black would love to see 4.Nxe5, when 4...Qg5!? would be tricky.

4. Bxf7+

The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit. 

Black was not ready for this change of plans.

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 6.Qh5+ Ke7 


Black was not happy about the idea 6...g6 7.Nxg6 hxg6 8.Qxh8, but that was his better choice.

Now checkmate comes.

7.Qf7+ Kd6 8.Nc4+ Kc5 9.Qd5+  Kb4 10.c3+ Ka4 11.Qa5 checkmate

Wow! That was over so fast, I barely had time to insert diagrams.

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