Unfinished Discussion

The following game is part of an unfinished discussion concerning a line in the Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc3 Nd4!? 4.Bxf7+!?)


dudzlomo - LDRAGO
standard, FICS, 2012


1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.


4.Bxf7+ 


The Jerome treatment.


4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 6.c3 

More frequently see is the direct 6.Qh5+, although the text shows up 317 times in The Database, with White scoring 57%.


6...Ne6 


The wild 6...Qg5 was seen in suzana - Yaman, lightning, FICS, 2011.


7.Qh5+ g6 

Black forfeited by disconnection.


Quite possibly this was a case of the "outside world" intruding into the world of the chessboard. 


Although White has scored 60% here in the 63 games that appear in The Database, Black is hardly "objectively" worse after 8.Nxg6 Nf6 9.Qh4 hxg6 10.Qxh8 Nxe4, when he has two Knights to White's Rook and two pawns.