JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Part 11)

JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Part 11) 

  

(by Yury V. Bukayev) 

 

 

As a further development of my Part 9 (the post of October, 12, 2021 on Rick Kennedy’s blog), this continuation of my theoretical research on the standard line of the Jerome gambit (JG) is about position after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qh3+! Ke7 8.Qc3 Bd6!?. 

 

After 9.f4 Ke8 it isn’t clear, what of possible White’s ways is the strongest here, but the following White’s attack is very serious: 10.d4! N (This my new move-invention has the same general idea as my Part 9 shows, White’s sequence of moves plays a role.) 10…Nc6 11.0-0! Bf8 12.e5!. It’s enough rare case in theory of JG, where on this opening stage White regains no pieces and lets opponent’s King retreat back from the centre, but creates very large difficulties for the opponent! White’s practical chances are very large here, although all Black’s moves are very strong or enough strong! It maybe, 12…Qe7!? is the most active answer here, but it can require a lot of time and large efforts to find it. 13.Be3 (13.a3 Nxd4! is normal for Black) 13…Qb4 14.Qd3!, and White’s serious attack continues.  

 

These theoretical difficulties for Black can be mortal for him in your game, even without very large difficulties of other kinds, which are present always at games. So I recommend you to play this line, if you are lover of the Jerome gambit with 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+. You can get it also by my other sequences of moves: 9.d4 Nc6 10.0-0 Ke8 11.f4 (11.e5!?) 11…Bf8; 9.0-0 Ke8 etc.; 9.f4 Ke8 10.0-0! Nc6 11.d4 (please, look at my Part 9) 11…Bf8.   

 

 Of course, the Natural star Jerome gambit deferred (the strong deferred line of JG - the post of September, 17, 2021 on Rick Kennedy’s blog) will be much more attractive for a lot of experts of the modern chess opening theory than the standard line of JG, but the defence 6…Ke6 after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ requires their new attention and large revision already now, we can understand finally.