Perez – Alekhine Game & WCC’s Main Mistake: The New View (Part 1)
(by Yury V. Bukayev)
This my new analytical research has a goal to try to explain Black’s very large mistake and to find the best way (or ways) for Black instead.
Probably, Rick Kennedy is right when he says that the great maestro Alexandre Alekhine (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekhin) couldn’t lose as Black as a result of his possible play against the Jerome gambit, and such game isn’t found. But the world of Jerome-ish true gambits and pseudogambits is very large and includes very strong ones too, so it isn’t easy to find such games and to suppose before it, what were possible maestri’s results here.
Now we’ll consider World Champion Alexandre Alekhine’s tournament blitz game (Madrid, 1943, October 22) against a future enough famous player Francisco Jose Perez Perez. We can see here Jerome-ish very strong blow in the Pierce gambit of the Vienna game. This blow isn’t a true gambit, in fact. Most probably, it was the shortest A.Alekhine’s lost game since he has become a chess maestro.
Perez, F. J. – WCC Alekhine, A.
Madrid, 1943, blitz
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Bc4 gxf3 7.Bxf4 fxg2?? [It’s A.Alekhine’s very large mistake in the game, which allows White to get an advantage immediately.] 8.Bxf7+!! Kxf7 9.Qh5+ Kg7 10.Rg1 Nge7 11.Bh6+! Kg8 12.Rxg2+, and Black resigned. [It would be most correct to resign after the 11th move, I think.]
I think, Black’s best 7th moves are 7…d5, 7…f2+ and 7…Bb4.
If I know it right, all commentators have one version only, so their conclusion is that A.Alekhine have made 7…fxg2??, because he hasn’t seen the blow 8.Bxf7+!!. I’m ready to accept this version, but I have created some following alternative versions.
The first of them is that A.Alekhine tried to play 7…f2+, but the abrupt blitz movement of his fingers knocked the pawn f3 and the pawn g2 down. He lifted them back without his comment and made his move 7…f2+, but his opponent has started to require the move 7…fxg2 instead and has had all rights to do it.
The second of them is that A.Alekhine thought about 7…d5 and about his choice after 8.Nxd5 – 8…Bd6 or 8…fxg2. He solved, probably, to play 8…fxg2 9.Rg1 Qh4+ 10.Bg3 Qxe4+ 11.Kf2 Qf5+ with the win. But he has made the move …fxg2 immediately after looking at their chess clock, because he has forgotten that moves 7…d5 8.Nxd5 haven’t made yet. Earlier – in my research ‘Anatoly Karpov & Jerome Gambit (Part 2)’ (the post of January 27, 2022) – I have created my almost analogous version about why WCC A.Karpov’s opponent Mr. Delgado hasn’t made the easy winning move …Qxe5.
The third of them is that A.Alekhine has played 7…fxg2 intentionally, because he has seen no White’s winning blows on the 11th move after 10…Nge7 (?).
In any case, I say: “Bravo, Francisco Jose Perez Perez! Thank you a lot!” And, yes, it is not very glad and easy to analyse chess during a war...
Note 1: Author’s theoretical novelties-moves are not marked by a special symbol.
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