Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Played Jerome-ish Games!



In earlier posts we have looked at a couple of bullet games played by top Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave which featured the risky Jerome-ish gambit with Bxf7+.

Yury V. Bukayev has sent his three more Jerome-ish games. Have a pleasure to explore the style of the current World Blitz Chess Champion!

Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Vallejo Pons, Francisco

World Rapid 2017  

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 Na5 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Nxe5+ Ke7 8.d4 d6 9.Nd3 Kf7 10.OO Bb7 11.Nc3 Nf6 12.e5 dxe5 13.dxe5 Nd5 14.Ne4 Be7 15.Qh5+ Kg8 16.Ndc5 Bc6 17.Qg4 Bxc5 18.Qe6+ Kf8 19.Nxc5 Qe8 20.Qh3 Kg8 21.f4 h5 22.Nd3 Qg6 23.f5 Qg4 24.Qxg4 hxg4 25.b3 Rh5 26.Bd2 Nb7 27.Rf2 a5 28.a3 a4 29.c4 bxc4 30.bxc4 Nb6 31.f6 gxf6 32.exf6 Kf7 33.Re1 Re8 34.Rxe8 Bxe8 35.Re2 Nxc4 36.Bc3 Rf5 37.Re7+ Kf8 38.Rxc7 Nbd6 39.Bb4 Kg8 40.Rg7+ Kh8 41.Rxg4 Bf7 42.h3 Ne8 43.Bc3 Nxf6 44.Rf4 Rxf4 45.Nxf4 Nxa3 46.Bxf6+ Kh7 47.Kf2 Nc2 48.Ke2 a3 49.Kd2 Bb3 50.g3 a2 51.Kc1 Ba4 52.Nd5 a1=Q+ 53.Bxa1 Nxa1 54.Kb2 Nc2 55.Nb6 Nd4 56.Nxa4 Ne2 57.g4 Nf4 58.h4 Ng2 59.h5 Kh6 60.g5+ Kxg5 61.h6 Kxh6 ½-½

Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Nakamura, Hikaru
9th London Classic 2017, London ENG
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.h4 h5 11.Bb3 Rc8 12.O-O-O Ne5 13.Bg5 Rc5 14.Kb1 Re8 15.g4 hxg4 16.f4 Nc4 17.Qd3 Na5 18.Bxf6 exf6 19.Bd5 Nc6 20.Nxc6 bxc6 21.Bxf7+ Kxf7 22.Qxd6 Rxc3 23.Qxd7+ Qxd7 24.Rxd7+ Ke6 25.Rxg7 Rf3 26.Rxg6 Rxf4 27.Rg1 Rxe4 28.R6xg4 Rxg4 29.Rxg4 f5 30.Ra4 Rg8 31.b3 Rg4 32.Rxa7 f4 33.Kc1 f3 34.Kd2 Rxh4 35.Ra8 Rh2+ 36.Kd3 Kf5 37.a4 Kg4 38.a5 Rh1 39.Rg8+ Kf4 40.Rf8+ Kg3 41.Rg8+ Kf4 42.Rf8+ Kg3 43.b4 f2 44.Kd4 f1=Q 45.Rxf1 Rxf1 46.Kc5 Rc1 47.Kxc6 ½–½

Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Dudin, Gleb
World Blitz Championship 2021, Warsaw POL
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.c3 d6 8.d4 Bb6 9.Be3 O-O 10.Nbd2 Rb8 11.Re1 h6 12.h3 Re8 13.a4 exd4 14.cxd4 Nb4 15.a5 Ba7 16.d5 Bxe3 17.Rxe3 c5 18.dxc6 Nxc6 19.Rd3 Nb4 20.Rc3 Bb7 21.Bxf7+ Kxf7 22.Qb3+ Nbd5 23.Rd3 Qd7 24.exd5 Qf5 25.Nd4 Qxd5 26.Nxb5 Qxb3 27.Nxd6+ Ke6 28.Nxb3 Red8 29.Nc5+ Ke7 30.Re1+ 1-0


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