Jerome Gambit: Keep Up, or Lose on Time

angelcamina (you have seen his games on this blog before) likes to play the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) at bullet speed - one minute per game, no increment.

His opponents sometimes just lose to the strength of the attack. Other times, they work to "solve" the Jerome, but this takes time off their clock, so they slip and drop material and lose. Or, they simply run out of time. 

Here is a recent game, with a couple in the notes, to see how it's done.

angelcamina - chessgenius71

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2021

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6

Or 6...Kf8 7.Qxe5 Qe7 8.Qf4+ Ke8 9.Qxc7 (risky but thought-provoking) Bxf2+ (Unnecessary) 10.Kxf2 Nf6 11.d3 Ng4+ 12.Kg3 h5 13.h4 Rf8 14.Bg5 Nf6 15.Nc3 d6 16.Qxe7+ (exchanging Queens does not fix things) Kxe7 17.Nd5+ Ke8 18.Nc7+ Kd7 19.Nxa8 Nxe4+ 20.dxe4  b6 21.Nxb6+ axb6 22.Rhf1 Bb7 23.Rxf8 Black resigned, angelcamina - mistrustful, lichess.org, 2021

7.Qd5+ Ke8 8.Qxc5 Qe7 9.Qe3 d5 

A good idea, both helping development and attacking (thus, limiting) White's pawn center.

10.d3 dxe4 11.dxe4 Nf6 12.f3  

He has also played 12.Nc3 c6 13.O-O Kf7 14.f4 Re8 15.e5 Nd7 16.b3 Qc5 17.Qxc5 Nxc5 18.Ba3 b6 19.Bxc5 bxc5 20.Ne4 Rd8 21.Rae1 Rd2 (ouch) 22.Nxd2 Ba6 23.Rf2 Rd8 24.Ne4 Rd4 25.Nd6+ Ke6 (understandable, but it was safer to retreat) 26.f5+ Kd5 27.fxg6 hxg6 28.Nf7 g5 29.Nxg5 Re4 30.Rxe4 White won on time, angelcamina - Rakammerer80, lichess.org, 202l. 

12...Be6 13.b3 Kf7 14.Ba3 Qd7 15.Nd2 Qb5 16.O-O-O Rad8 

17.c4 Qa5 18.Kb2 Rd7 19.e5 Nxe5 20.Ne4 Rxd1 21.Ng5+ Kg6 22.Rxd1 

Black has done very well, but it does not matter, as here White won on time. Bullet chess can be cruel.