No Breach in the Wall

The move ...Qd8-h4+ can be played in the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) with great effect.

Sometimes.

Wall,B - Edaison
FICS, 2010

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

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

7.f4 Nf7

8.Qxc5

The capture has also come with preliminaries: 8.Qd5+ Ke7 9.Qxc5+ Ke8 10.0-0 d6 11.Qe3 Qe7 12.Nc3 Bd7 13.d4 Bb5 14.Nxb5 Kd7 15.Qh3+ Kd8 16.Nc3 Black resigned, mrjoker-Dabo, ICC 2008; and

8.Qf5+ Kd6 9.Qd5+ Ke7 10.Qxc5+ d6 11.Qd4 Nf6 12.Nc3 Re8 13.d3 Kf8 14.0-0 c5 15.Qf2 b6 16.Bd2 Bb7 17.Rae1 d5 18.e5 Nd7 19.e6 Re7 20.exf7 Rxf7 21.Re6 Nf6 22.Rfe1 d4 23.Ne4 Nxe4 24.dxe4 Bc8 25.Re5 Qd6 26.Rd5 Qh6 27.Qg3 Bb7 28.f5 Bxd5 29.Bxh6 gxh6 30.exd5 Rf6 31.Re6 Rxf5 32.Rxh6 Rf7 33.Qd6+ Kg8 34.Qe6 Raf8 35.Rf6 Kg7 36.Rxf7+ Rxf7 37.d6 Kf8 38.d7 Re7 39.Qf6+ Rf7 40.Qxf7+ Kxf7 41.d8Q Ke6 Black resigned, Superpippo - Sulu, FICS, 2002.

8...Qh4+

Or 8...d6 9.Qc3 Nf6 10.0-0 Kd7 11.e5 Nd5 12.e6+ Ke7 13.Qxg7 Bxe6 14.f5 Qg8 15.Qxg8 Raxg8 16.fxe6 Kxe6 17.Nc3 Nxc3 18.dxc3 Rg6 19.Be3 b6 20.Rae1 Ne5 21.Bd4 Rhg8 22.Re2 c5 23.Bxe5 dxe5 24.Rfe1 Rg5 25.h4 Rf5 26.Re4 h5 27.c4 Rgf8 28.c3 Rf4 29.Rxe5+ Kd6 30.Rd5+ Kc6 31.Re6+ Kb7 32.Rxh5 Rxc4 33.Rh7+ Ka6 34.Ree7 Ra8 35.g3 Black resigned, tomvandermeer - keeswillern, GameKnot, 2006.

9.g3 Qe7

The Queen check did not prove very helpful, but the retreat will prove disastrous. The Queen needed to return to d8.

10.Qd5+

Curiously, in an earlier game White missed the checkmate-in-two, and later lost: 10.f5+ Kf6 11.Qd4+ Ne5 12.d3 c5 13.Qc3 Kf7 14.Bf4 Nf3+ 15.Kf2 Nd4 16.Nd2 Nf6 17.e5 Ng4+ 18.Kg2 Rd8 19.e6+ dxe6 20.fxe6+ Nxe6 21.Rhe1 Nxf4+ 22.gxf4 Qh4 23.Nf3 Qf2+ 24.Kh1 Qxf3+ 25.Kg1 Qf2+ 26.Kh1 Qf3+ 27.Kg1 Qf2+ 28.Kh1 Qxh2 checkmate, Nesseerd - MYCAT, FICS, 2007.

10...Kf6 11.Qf5 checkmate