Anatoly Karpov & Jerome Gambit (Part 9)
(by Yury V. Bukayev)
The Part 9 of this my work is about wrong Anatoly Karpov (in contrast with the Part 2 and with the Part 6). Thus, it’s a story about my new notable Jerome gambit (JG) game against the well-known (due to his games against me and not only it) chess amateur Anatoly Karpov, a father of a little boy (my first game against him was shown in the Part 3). This new game was played in Moscow this month.
Thus, after his losses in our games of 2022-2023 Anatoly wanted to prove that he can play strongly and that his knowledge of the standard line (4.Bxf7+) of JG theory and practice can lead him to a win. So he suggested me to play again. He asked me to play the variation 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qf5+. I have understood that dear Anatoly has prepared to this variation, and it will be not easily to beat him. Thus, here is our new game:
Bukayev, Yury – Karpov, Anatoly (father)
tempo, 10+0
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.Na3 c6 9.f4
This my new invented attack, instead of 9.d4, requires Black’s strong play. After six minutes of thinking Anatoly chose the best way.
9...Qh4+ 10.g3 Nf3+ 11.Kd1 Qe7
Bravo, Anatoly! White started to find a trap in order to try to save the game.
12.b4 Bxb4
If 12…Bd4, then White can try 13.Qh5. Here the “extremely natural” move 13…Bxa1 is a blunder: 14.Nb5+!! cxb5 15.Qc5+ Ke6 16.Qd5+ Kf6 17.Qf5 checkmate.
13.c3 Bc5 14.d4 Bb6
My opponent couldn’t see the trap, and his “absolutely natural” defence is really a blunder. And he spent else about two minutes to choose the very sharp and normal move 12…Bxb4.
15.Nb5+
Anatoly was shocked. But, of course, he understood the situation.
15…cxb5 16.Ba3+ Kc7 17.Bxe7 Nxe7 18.Qf7
He continued to think. The time became a critical factor.
18…Kd8 19.Ke2
Black can’t save his minor piece. White got a little advantage, it maybe. Black had a very large lack of time, and his mood became very bad after all events on the board. He looked at our chess clock and resigned.
The game is notable, since it develops the Jerome gambit theory! I thank Anatoly very much!
