How to Get an Advantage or to Win with JG (4.Bxf7+) against Maestri: the Collection of Practice (Part 2)

 

How to Get an Advantage or to Win with 

JG (4.Bxf7+) against Maestri: 

 the Collection of Practice (Part 2)

(by Yury V. Bukayev)

Dear readers, let me remind you that these my new posts about White's advantage and wins in such chess games are dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's publications with 4.Bxf7+ in Giuoco Piano. Now the world chess history knows a lot of cases, where White got an advantage or won here against grandmasters and other extremely strong defenders!

We should start this new part from the second of two games between the same grandmasters:

Top GM Hikaru Nakamura - GM Dmitrij Kollars (3 min blitz, Chess.com, 2020),

where after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.f4 Qh4+ 9.g3 Qf6 10.fxe5+ Qxe5 11.Qf3 Black made, in my opinion, his first positional mistake 11...Qf6 in the game. The fight went on, and after several moves Black abandoned the game with the position where his King was not safe enough. It is unknown what has happened when the game was abandoned, but it seems to me, Black didn't plan to play two Jerome gambit games against Hikaru Nakamura without enough tie-break. Thus, Black didn't know theory of Jerome gambit: he spent too much time in the first game for known opening moves, made a mistake 11...Qf6 just after the alternative White's way in the second game. Finally, Nakamura said in September 2020 as a result of his enough long practice: "At least at blitz chess, I'm probably the best or second-best player ever, in the entire history, at least online". In this situation 6...Ke6 is a risky choice for 3 min time control games. Thus, analogously someone can beat a maestro in the first game and provoke him for the similar second one, which wasn't in his plans. If something isn't in plans, the probability of abandonment can be enough large, even if a position is excellent.

 Further, we should say about the game 

Amateur - GM Andrew Tang ( NN - penguingm1, 0 15 bullet, GM penguingim1 Arena, 2018,   https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2024/10/jerome-gambit-light-hearted.html ), 

where after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 White has made a blunder 5.Ng5+ . Here after 5...Qxg5 6.O-O Qg6 7.d4 Black has made two blunders 7...d6 8.dxc5 Bh3 , so White could get the slight advantage after the trivial 9.Qf3+ with 10.Qxh3 .

(to be continued)

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Best wishes!

Yury