Not This Time

rego - zille, blitz, FICS, 2012

How often have we seen White, in the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+), escape into the safety of a Bishops-of-opposite-colors endgame, even down material?

Or see White use his endgame experience in those bits of murkiness to out-play his opponent in an "objectively" equal game?

Alas, this time White found no slight-of-hand available, and agreed to split the point. Pity. Perhaps the clock was ticking down, after all...