Monday, November 28, 2022

Do JEt-set ROnaldo and MEssi Want to Promote the JE-RO-ME Chess Drawn Final? (Part 1)

 


Do JEt-set ROnaldo and MEssi Want to Promote  

the JE-RO-ME Chess Drawn Final? (Part 1) 

  

(by Yury V. Bukayev) 

 

 

Very often current world news can be used to create new ideas. Thus, recently two jet-set football superstars Lionel (Leo) Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have promoted together the drawn final of the game WCC Top GM Magnus Carlsen vs Top GM Hikaru Nakamura (a draw by a perpetual check, https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1877676 ), and there have been superstar comments after it. I have created the following new idea, it is for them, first of all, and it uses the certain final of the Jerome gambit (JG) battle. 

 

The part 10 of my analytical researchJG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology(its parts 1-11 were published on Rick Kennedy’s blog in 2020-2022) on the standard line of JG contains the following new theoretical way: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qh3+! Ke7! 8.Qc3! Bxf2+! 9.Kxf2! Qf8+! 10.Ke1! Qf4! 11.Qb4+! Kd8!? 12.Rf1!? c5! 13.Qxc5! Qxe4+! 14.Kd1! Qg4+! 15.Rf3! Nxf3!? 16.Qf8+! Kc7 17.Qc5+! Kd8 18.Qf8+!. Please, look at the diagram.



We have a draw this moment of the perpetual check or as a result of the end of the perpetual check after 18…Kc7 19.Qc5+! Kd8. This variation (15…Nxf3) was named as the War’s Stop First Variation’.  

 

Thus, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo can promote this Jerome gambit’s drawn final analogously to that their promotion. Why will everyone be able to understand their choice of the Jerome gambit as a chess opening? Firstly, “JE” means “jet-set”, “RO” means “Ronaldo”, “ME” means “Messi, and we get “JE-RO-ME”. Secondly, Mr. Ronaldo and Mr. Messi are chess beginners, and my other analytical research Was H.Nakamura Right? Is JG ‘Unbreakable’, Is EG ‘Legendary’ For Beginners’ Games? (its part 1 was published on Rick Kennedy’s blog in 2022) proves first that the standard line of the Jerome gambit can be extremely effective for chess beginners’ practice (due to the First Golden Beginner’s Trap), much more than a lot of other opening systems including 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3 of that Carlsen – Nakamura game. Thirdly, Mr. Ronaldo as White (who has said about his checkmate there) will be able to say legally about his possible immediate checkmate here: 18…Kc7 19.Qc5+! Kb8?? 20.Qd6!#. 

 

Do they want to promote it? Unfortunately, now they don’t know about this my idea. So everyone will know about it after their reading, thinking and so on. Who wants to promote it also, after or before these sport superstars  

 

 

Contact the author:  istinayubukayev@yandex.ru  

 

© 2022 Yury V. Bukayev (Copyright © Bukayev Yury Vyacheslavovich 2022). All rights reserved.  

[A legal using of this investigation with a reference to it is permitted  

and doesn’t require author’s consent.] 

 

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Jerome Gambit: Morphy-Bot?



A recent YouTube video, "Stockfish plays the Jerome Gambit", is the latest in a series of Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) computer vs computer games.

Earlier coverage of bot battles can be found in "Jerome Gambit: Entertaining Chess Content (Part 1)", "Jerome Gambit: Entertaining Chess Content (Part 2)", "More Entertaining Jerome Gambit Chess Content", and, most recently, "Jerome Gambit: Challenging the Bot".

It makes me wonder: how would the real Paul Morphy fare against Stockfish and the Jerome Gambit?


Stockfish - Morphy-Bot

Chess.com, 2022

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Kf8 7.Qxe5 

7...d6 8.Qg3 Kf7 

It looks like Morphy-Bot is planning to castle-by-hand, but this never happens.

In this slow Jerome Gambit, Stockfish slowly outplays its opponent.

9.d3 Nf6 10.Nc3 c6 11.O-O Bb4 12.Bg5 h6 13.Be3 Be6 14.f4 Bg4


This is a tactical oversight that Jerome Gambit players will recognize by putting the pieces together: White Rook on f-file, Black King on f-file, Black Knight protecting Black Bishop (which is attacked by White Queen), the opportunity of a White pawn causing mischief at e5.

Better for Black would have been 14...Kg8.

 15.e5 Bf5  

The poor Bishop is having a bad day. Stockfish 15 (on my computer, not the one in the game) suggests 15...Bxc3!?, because 16.bxc3 would allow 16...Nd5, while  16.exf6 Bxb2 17.Qxg4 Bxf6 18.Rab1 b5 would give White an edge. 

16.exf6 Rg8 17.fxg7 Rxg7 18.Qf3 Qh4 


Morphy-Bot has some Kingside pressure, but not 2 pawns worth.

19.Bd4 Rag8

Odd. There is little compensation for this exchange sacrifice.

20.Bxg7 Kxg7 21.Ne2 Kh8 

Finally.

22.c3 Ba5 23.Ng3 Bg4 24.Qe4 Qf6 25.f5 Bb6+ 26.d4 d5 27.Qf4 c5 


Looking to open the attacking diagonal a7-g1.

White is ahead the exchange and two pawns, but the computer assesses the advantage as being more than a Queen's worth. 

28.Rae1 Rf8 29.Qxg4 cxd4 30.Re6 dxc3+ 31.Kh1 Qg5 32.Qh3 Be3 33.bxc3 Bd2 


This allows White to drive the enemy Queen away, and setting up mate.

34.Rg6 Qe3 35.f6 Qe8 36.Rxh6+ Kg8 37.Rh8+ Kf7 38.Rh7+ Kg8 39.Rg7 checkmate