Jaenisch Gambit | I had a PRESCIENT VISION! ⚡ Quick Wins #83
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chess noob Quick Wins! is a series of short videos, to demonstrate very quick wins! As a beginner, you become aware of the Scholar's Mate and the Fool's Mate, but neither of these show up in real games. However, there are tricky quick checkmates and wins that occur, even at the intermediate level of chess.
Every once in a while, one can get a flash of inspiration; a moment of clarity where you can see the next sequence of moves and how your opponent will respond!
This occurred to me in this Team Australian tournament match against a fellow Aussie @RGranjan7. I had the black pieces and played for New South Wales, and they played for Western Australia. The game started with a Ruy López Opening: Jaenisch Gambit, Exchange Variation (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. Bxc6 4. dxc6).
After the exchange, White played a "delayed" accepting of the gambit with (5. exf5?!) which is an inaccuracy as (5... e4), threatening White's knight is a forcing and powerful move. However, in this game, I opted to play a different variation, by immediately capturing White's f-pawn (5... Bxf5) and ostensibly playing a second gambit of my e5-pawn, opening the centre files.
However, White hesitated to accept a second gambit, and opted to play more conservatively (6. d3) and then castled (7. O-O). I used the opportunity to develop my pieces (6... Nf6), including my dark square bishop to a tricky square (7... Bd6). At this point, the possibilities I saw included a potential Greek Gift Sacrifice, as well as an "ICBM gambit" like manoeuvre with my dark square bishop giving check, revealing an attack on White's queen.
And then, White played (8. Re1), their best move in the position. And suddenly, I saw it! It was a strong sense of empathy; a deep intuition that I knew what my opponent was thinking and what they were planning.
He sensed it, the race consciousness that he could not escape. There was a sharpened clarity, the inflow of data, the cold precision of his awareness. He sank to the floor, sitting with his back against rock, giving himself up to it. Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future... the winds of the past: the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future - all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.
- Frank Herbert, Dune
In my mind's eye, I had foreseen that White would calculate that after (8... e4? 9. dxe4!), they would use the pin down the e-file to cleanly win one of my pieces. However, I had already seen the trap beyond the trap! After (9... Bxe4), White will play (10. Ng5) to "place pressure on the pinned piece" - the bishop to my king. And then, (10... O-O) short castles, White had two attackers on my e4-bishop to my one defender and so will initiate the capture (11. Nxe4 Nxe4 12. Rxe4??)!
And the game was indeed as I predicted... and then the killer blow (12... Bxh2+!), check! White's king must respond to check, leaving their queen exposed down the d-file. Emotional damage, good game, GG!
Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/643443313
