The Anti-Bill Wall Gambit

Bill Wall may be the strongest human (2200+ USCF) playing the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) on the internet. He has been contributing games to this blog, and his latest is more unusual than his usual unusual...

Wall,B - Buster
Chess.com, 2010

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6

7.f4 Bf2+

Since the only other game that I have in the updated New Year's Database with 7...Bf2+ is Wall - Equa, Chess.com, 2010, I'm tempted to title it the "anti-Bill Wall gambit"!

The whole notion of ...B(x)f2+ seems to be "backatcha": Black says I really don't know what you're planning on getting out of that Bishop sac at f7, but whatever it is, here's the same thing back at you!

Of course, the irony is that from an objective point of view, what the Jerome Gambiteer gets out of that Bishop sac at f7 is "a lost game" so he is usually delighted for Black to offer to claim that outcome back for himself.

8.Kxf2

In all fairness to Buster, he would still have an uncomfortable edge in the game if he now played 8...Nc6.

Instead, he returns a Knight, and then a Rook.

8...g6 9.Qxe5+ Kf7 10.Qxh8 Qh4+ 11.g3

and White won