Blunder Blunders

When you have an opponent named "blunder", as Bill Wall does in the following Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game, you can always hope that there might be some errors across the board that will help you out.

billwall - blunder2
Chess.com, 2011

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

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

7.Qd5+ Ke8 8.Qxc5 d6 9.Qe3 Nf6

10.d4

Following in the footsteps of Charlick - Mann, correspondence, 1881 (1-0, 72).

10...b6 11.0-0 Bb7 12.f3 Kf7

13.Qb3+ Ke7 14.Qa3 Re8 15.e5 Nd7 16.Bg5+ Nf6 17.exf6+ gxf6

White has recovered his sacrificed piece and is a pawn to the good.

18.Re1+ Kf7 19.Qb3+ d5 20.Be3 Qd6 21.Nc3 Re7

22.Ne4 Qe6 23.Nc5 bxc5 24.Qxb7 Rae8 25.dxc5 c6 26.Qb4 Qf5

White is ahead a couple of pawns. If the players move to the endgame, the win is there, providing that the clock does not intervene. (Of course, familiarity with the Jerome Gambit often grants a time advantage.)

27.Qd2 Ne5 28.Bd4 Nc4 29.Rxe7+ Rxe7 30.Qd3 Qxd3 31.cxd3 Ne5 32.Bxe5 fxe5

33.Kf2 Rb7 34.b3 Rb5 35.Rc1 Ra5 36.a4 Ke6

37.Ke3 d4+ 38.Ke4 h6 39.f4 exf4 40.Kxf4 Kd5

41.b4 Rxa4 42.Re1 Rxb4 43.Re5 checkmate