Jerome Gambit Gemeinde member Martin Moller of Denmark (see "Trading up!") has been at it again, showing his creativity and sense of adventure in another snappy game.When facing 1.e4 I always answer with the Elephant Gambit, an opening I very seldom meet when playing White, but just the other day on ICC my opponent gave me 2. --- d5 ! But now that I study the Jerome I thought : let me give this Elephant a Jerome lesson !? Here is the game, 5 min. blitz as usual.
Moller - HipHop elephant
ICC 5 min blitz, 2008
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5
3.Nxe5 Bd6 4.d4 dxe4 5.Bc4 Bxe5
The "book" move for White now is 6.Qh5.
6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Qh5+
7...Kf8
Sixty years ago, Black tried 7... g6 8.Qxe5 Nf6 9.Bg5 Nbd7 10.Qf4 Qe7 11.Qxc7 Qb4+ 12.Nc3 Nd5 13.a3 Qxb2 14.Nxd5 Qxa1+ 15.Ke2 Qxd4 16.Qf4+ Nf6 17.Rd1 Bg4+ 18.f3 exf3+ 19.gxf3 Rhe8+ 20.Ne3 Qxf4 21.Bxf4 Bf5 22.Kf2 Rac8 23.c4 b6 White resigns, Elbert - Diemer, Germany 1948
8.Qxe5 Nc6 9.Qc5+ Nce7 10.Bg5 Nf6 11.Nc3 b6 12.Qc4
12...h6 13.Bxf6 gxf6 14.Nxe4 Kg7 15.0-0-0 Nd5 16.h4 Be6 17.Qe2 h5 18.Qd3 Nf4 19.Qe3 Nxg2
Black has been playing well, and keeping the game even, but this move hangs a piece.
20.Rhg1 Bg4 21.Rxg2 f5 22.Nc3 Kf7 23.Rdg1
Simpler was 23.f3, but remember, this is a 5-minute game.
23...Re8 24.Qh6 Rh8 25.Qf4 Qf6 26.f3
26...Bh3 27.Qxc7+ Ke6 28.Rg6 Qxg6 29.Rxg6 checkmate
graphics by Jeff Bucchino, "The Wizard of Draws"
