JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Part 13)
(by Yury V. Bukayev)
As a further development of my Part 11 (the post of August 16, 2022 on Rick Kennedy’s blog), this continuation of my theoretical research on the standard line of the Jerome gambit (JG) is about position after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qh3+! Ke7 8.Qc3 Bd6!? 9.f4!? Ke8!? 10.d4!? Nc6 11.0-0!
After 11…Bf8 White has the following two possibilities:
I)12.d5! AN
A)12…Nce7
A1)13.Qd3 d6 (13…Nf6 14.c4! with the idea 15.e5 and with the attack) 14.c4! with the idea 15.e5 and with the attack
A2)13.Qf3! with the same idea, with the attack
B)12…Qe7 13.Kh1! (13.dxc6 Qc5+ 14.Kh1 Qxc3 15.cxd7+ Bxd7 16.Nxc3, and White loses his attack, the position is good for Black) 13…Qc5 (13…Qb4 14.Qd3! with the attack) 14.Qd2! with the attack
II)12.e5! Qe7!? 13.Rd1!? AN, and White’s attack continues.
These theoretical difficulties for Black can be mortal for him in your game, even without very large difficulties of other kinds, which are present always at games. So I recommend you to play this line, if you are a lover of the Jerome gambit with 5.Nxe5+. You can get it also by my other sequences of moves: 9.d4 Nc6 10.0-0 Ke8 11.f4 Bf8; 9.0-0 Ke8 etc.; 9.f4 Ke8 10.0-0! Nc6 11.d4 Bf8.
Of course, ‘the Fantastic Star Jerome Gambit Deferred’ and ‘the Triumphant Jerome Gambit Deferred’ (these are my most strong deferred lines of JG, real parts of JG, they were invented and published in 2022 in my analytical research ‘Lose Never with a Strong Deferred Jerome Gambit! (Part 2)’) will be much more attractive for a lot of experts of the modern chess opening theory than the standard line of JG.
