Sometimes, in the pursuit of the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) I encounter a player who suspects something, and who therefore plays the more circumspect "Semi-Italian" game: 3...h6. I have learned that if I am patient, however, and play a neutral move such as 4.0-0 or 4.Nc3, I may be rewarded with 4...Bc5 (see "Semi-Italian Jerome Gambit" and "Pulling A Rabbit Out of A Hat") and the opportunity to play 5.Bxf7+.
perrypawnpusher - wadada
blitz 10 0, FICS, 2009
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6 
4.0-0 Bc5 5.Bxf7+
4.0-0 Bc5 5.Bxf7+ 
5...Kxf7 6.Nxe5+ Nxe5 7.Qh5+ g6 
A reasonable defense, although 7...Ke6, while looking scarier for the second player, is stronger.
8.Qxe5 Nf6
If you are pretty well convinced that the opening being played against you is rubbish, you are more likely to choose a "solid" move against it, confident that that it will give you good play. That seems to be the case with my opponent here, who would have had a wonderful game after finding the retro move 8...Bf8 (9.Qxh8? Bg7). The text, though, will simply leave him behind two pawns.
9.Qxc5 d6 10.Qe3 Qe8
11.Nc3 c6 12.d3 Be6 13.f4 Ke7
Perhaps anticipating 15.e5 and planning to answer with 15...Nd5; but the lineup of Black King and Queen on the same file with the White Queen should have set off alarms in my opponent's head.
14.f5 gxf5
Choosing to go out with a "bang" rather than with a "whimper." Rybka 3 later showed a grim alternate line where White gets two passes on the 6th: 14...Bd7 15.e5 Ng4 16.exd6+ Kd8 17.Qxe8+ Bxe8 18.f6 Ne5 19.Bf4 Nf7 20.Rae1 g5 21.Bg3 Bd7 22.Re7 Rf8 23.Rfe1 h5 24.h3 b6 25.Bh2 Kc8.
15.exf5 Kd7 16.Qxe6+ Qxe6 17.fxe6+ Kxe6
I willingly returned a pawn for the piece-up endgame. My opponent's heart no longer seemed in the game.
18.Bd2 Kd7 19.Rxf6 Black resigns
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