Pulled up Short

This Blackburne Shilling Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4) game was galloping along toward lightly-explored territory when a sudden Knight move caused it to pull up short and end quickly...

perrypawnpusher  - Abatwa
blitz 12 4, FICS, 2010

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

4.Bxf7+

The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke6 6.c3 Nc6

I had looked at this move in depth (see "Clearly Unclear") based on the games of Jerome Gambit Gemeinde member GOH at FICS.

7.d4 Nce7

8.Qg4+ Black resigned

Black is going to lose his Queen after either 8...Kd6 9.Nf7+ or 8...Nf5 9.Qxf5+ Kd6 10.Nf7+.

This was good enough for me, although after the game Rybka pointed out that 8.d5+, instead, led to checkmate.