Now that the number of posts to this blog has passed 1,000 and its age races toward three years, I know that sometimes past items will be overlooked and not linked to current ones.
For example, in "Barely Legal" where I shared my Philidor Defense game that ended in a variation of Legal's Mate
I should have mentioned that in "Declining the Jerome Gambit - Légally" I presented a Damiano Defense game (by transposition) that also ended up in Légall's Mate
Oh, they're the almost the exact same position, you say? How could I have included one and overlooked the other?
It looks like my blog's "search" function could use a built-in "spell check" function to help me out...
p.s. Another recent Légal, played since the above was written, from my short visit to ICC: AlonzoJerome - Osmin, ICC 5 5, 2011, # 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.Nc3 h6 5.0-0 Bg4 6.d3 Nd4 7.Nxe5 Bxd1 8.Bxf7+ Ke7 9.Nd5 checkmate
Denied the chance for a Jerome Gambit, and facing a foe with a strategy that had been successful against me in past games, I found a way to update an old chess strategem of my own.
perrypawnpusher - koek
blitz, FICS, 2011
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6
Sigh. No Jerome Gambit today: a Philidor Defense by transposition, or maybe a Hungarian Defense.
4.0-0 Bg4
Planning to gang up on my pinned Knight at f3 and cause a breakup of the pawn wall in front of my King.
5.Nc3
Going along with Black's plan.
Last year Koek and I played one game that continued 5.d4 White resigned; and another that continued 5.h3 Bh5 6.d3 Nd4 White resigned.
5...Nd4
I've been having a hard time finding games that follow this move order, but I did discover Hansen, S. - Briz, P., Denmark, 1974, that now continued 6.d3 Nxf3+ 7.gxf3 Bh3, showing the Kingside damage that I was trying to avert.
Now for something completely different.
6.Nxe5
Ah, yes, the idea from Legal de Kermeur - St. Brie, Paris 1750: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Bg4 4.Nc3 g6 5.Nxe5 Bxd1 6.Bxf7+ Ke7 7.Nd5#
6...Bxd1
Black needed to play 6...dxe5, but who could resist a "free" Queen?
7.Bxf7+ Ke7 8.Nd5 checkmate
