From a Multi-step Synthesis Concept in Theoretical Chemistry to
the New Record-holder of Logical Reconstructions in Chess? (Part 1)
(by Yury V. Bukayev)
Being a chemist-scientist and a chemist-engineer, I’ll compare a synthesis in theoretical organic chemistry with chess, but, of course, I’ll start to consider chess here at first.
Probably, almost each reader of Rick Kennedy’s blog has already found (among web videos on the Jerome gambit) and watched the Twitch-clip ‘Alessia tries Jerome gambit’ by the National Women’s and Girls’ Champion Woman FIDE Master Alessia Santeramo (Italy) with her demonstration of the final of her web game (as White) on Chess.com. Each reader remembers her showman rapturous yell and probably a natural happiness on her face near the end of this demonstration. But the majority of us takes an interest in chess positions, not in bright emotions on computer screens.
Dear Rick Kennedy has said me recently that it will be very nice to see the whole game. Unfortunately, I have not yet found it: probably it isn’t available to an ordinary user of the Internet. Is it possible to make a logical reconstruction of the game if you have only the position of its non-theoretical and extraordinary middlegame, without knowledge of its length? You’ll say “no, of course” probably, but I have tried to make it. Here it is.
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ (It is according to the name of the clip. All further moves up to the 18th Black’s move are my logical reconstructions. If two or more ways are possible, then I try to choose the most probable way.) 4…Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.0-0 (I have the following version of why it has happened. I suspect, Ms. Santeramo has tried here to make the ordinary move 6.Qh5+!, but her computer mouse has accidentally pushed the King on e1 instead of the Queen on d1. In this situation her move 6.0-0? was the best of possible King’s moves.) 6…Bf8 (Of course, it isn’t the best retreat, but it keeps a winning advantage for Black. WFM Alessia Santeramo sees it. But she remembers that her opponent isn’t a chess master probably, that it is a blitz (?) game with the Jerome gambit, so she understands: she should try to attack her opponent for mistakes.) 7.Qh5+ (I think, 7.f4! AN is the best move here. Of course, after 7…Ng6? 8.f5! White gets the attack. After 7…Nc6! we should compare this interesting position with the known position of my research ‘JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Part 11)’ with 11…Bf8. Thus, in that known position White’s “pawn tank” is very strong. Alternatively, in this our position it isn’t so very strong, so Black has much more time for a winning counter-attack. But Ms. Santeramo’s opponent could make here mistakes, so she had enough practical chance in this possible fight.) 7…Ng6 8.d3 Nf6 9.Qa5 d6 10.d4 Nxe4 (It’s Black’s first large mistake.) 11.Qd5+ Ke8 12.Qxe4+ Qe7 13.Qf3 Qf6 14.Qe4+ Ne7 15.Qd3 Nc6 16.Qe2+ Qe7 17.Qc4 Be6 (It’s another one.) 18.Qb5 Rb8 (It is the earliest move of the game, without indication of its number, which can be found on Ms. Santeramo’s clip. This move is again a mistake. Here I stop to make my brief comments: Alessia Santeramo starts to show and comment here. I’ll comment later.) 19.d5 Kd8 20.dxc6 Kc8 21.Bg5 Qf7 22.Nc3 Bc4 23.Qb4 Bxf1 24.Qg4+, and Black resigned.
It maybe, this very long reconstruction is a new record-holder of logical reconstructions in chess history. I hope, WFM Alessia Santeramo, or her opponent nicknamed ‘ChessToG0’ (Black) from Germany, or somebody else will be able to help us to see the protocol of the whole original game in the future, when it is possible. Dear players, thank you for the game!
[to be continued…]
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