PCG with 4.Bc4 and 5.Ng5

At his Contre Gambit Philidor blog, Frederic Fournier thinks that Black's play needs to be improved upon after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.Ng5 Nh6 6.O-O Nxd4 7.c3 f4 8.Nxh7 Ng4 which is what I used against David Newmuis at Cherry Hill last Saturday.


Fournier recommends 8...Ne6 as a better try. But there is nothing wrong with 8...Ng4 provided that I had followed up after 9.Nxf8 with 9...Nxh2! (10.cxd4? Nf3+! 11.Qxf3 Qh4 wins) instead of my 9...Rxh2 10.g3 Qg5.


White missed 11.cxd4!, after which Black has two choices:

(a) 11...Nxf2!? 12.Qf3 Qxg3+ 13.Qxg3 fxg3 14.Rxf2 Rxf2 15.Ne6! Bxe6 16.Bxe6 Ke7 17.Bc4 exd4 18.Nd2 Rh8 19.Nf1 with clear advantage to White;


(b) 11...Rh6! 12.Qf3 Nh2 13.Qg2 Qh5 14.Nd2 Nxf1 15.Bxf1 Kxf8 16.dxe5 dxe5 17.b4 when White's advantage is small.