A few years ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I was playing blitz chess online at the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). I was getting batted around by a player rated below me – he was playing very well, or I was playing very poorly, or some blend of the two.
Anyhow, if "losing face" were a big issue for me I'd have been Ichabod Crane's "headless horseman" decades ago.
My sangfroid was challenged, however, when my opponent decided that I was enough of a fish that he could unleash the dreaded "Blackburne Shilling Gambit" on me.
According to Wikipedia:
The first known mention of this line was by Steinitz, who noted it in 1895 in the Addenda to his Modern Chess Instructor, Part II. The earliest game with the opening on chessgames.com is Dunlop-Hicks, New Zealand Championship 1911.perrypawnpusher - patitolo
FICS rated blitz, FICS, 2005
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4
Here I was supposed to capture the e-pawn and foolishly fall to my death: 4.Nxe5 Qg5 5.Nxf7 Qxg2 6.Rf1 Qxe4 7.Be2 Nf3 checkmate as in Muhlock - Kostic, Cologne 1912. 4.Bxf7+
Instead, I Jerome-ized the opening!4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8
Black should have looked at 5...Ke6, but I think that White still has compensation for his piece.
6.Qh5+ g6 7.Nxg6 Nf6 8.Qe5+ Qe7
I'll attribute this error to "shock and awe." It is already time to draw the curtain on the game.
9.Nxe7 Bxe7 10.Qxd4 d6 11.Nc3 Be6 12.Nd5 c5 13.Nxf6+ Bxf6 14.Qxf6 Rf8 15.Qxe6+ Kd8 16.Qxd6+ Ke8 17.d3 Rd8 18.Qe6 checkmate
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