Fun I Had Been Missing

A couple of years ago (see "BSG: Later on in the Discussion") I referred to the Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit over-the-board game, Helmut Wieteck - Klaus Dutschke, Lahnstein, 1999, giving the bare moves, but not looking further into it.

Recently, I realized how much fun I had been missing by not playing it over. Come, look.

Wieteck, Helmut - Dutschke, Klaus
Lahnstein, Rheinland-chS, 1999

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 

The so-called Blackburne Shilling Gambit, attributed to the British master, apparently because of his delight in tactics, and his play in offhand games where the wager of a shilling was standard fare. However, I have not been able to find anyone who has discovered a game where J.H. Blackburne actually played this line.

4.Bxf7+ 
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The so-called Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit, as the play of White's light-squared Bishop and Queen is similar to that of the pieces in the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+). Again, this nomenclature, like the line itself, is rather bogus, as there is no indication that Alonzo Wheeler Jerome ever played this line, either.

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Nxg6 Qf6

If you have not faced the BSJG before, it might not be immediately clear that the best move for Black is 7...hxg6, with a tense, but largely even, game.

Now things get out of hand, quickly.

8.Nxh8+ Ke7 9.d3 

Already there are a couple of wild alternatives: 

9.Qxh7+ Qg7 10.Ng6+ Kf7 11.Nxf8 Nxc2+ 12.Ke2 Nxa1 13.Qxg7+ Kxg7 14.Na3 Kxf8 15.d3 d5 16.Bf4 Nf6 17.f3 c6 18.Rxa1; and

9.e5 Qxh8 10.Qh4+ Ke6 11.Qxd4 Qxe5+ 12.Qxe5+ Kxe5

In each case, White is better. 

9...Bh6

Looking for complications, but 9...Qxh8 was probably best.

10.Na3 Bxc1 11.Rxc1 

This does fine for White, but there was poison in 11.Qxh7+, as it would cost Black his Queen after 11...Kf8 12.Ng6+ Qxg6 (12...Ke8
13.Qxg8+ Qf8 14.Qxf8 mate) 13.Qxg6. 

11...Qxh8 12.Qc5+ Ke8 13.Qxc7 Nf3+ 

Hoping to escape under the cover of chaos.

14.gxf3 Qxb2 15.Kd2 Qxa3 16.Rhg1 Qxa2 17.Qe5+ Kd8 18.Qh8 Qa5+ 19.c3 Qa2+ 20.Rc2 Qe6 21.Qxg8+ Qxg8 22.Rxg8+ Kc7 

The smoke has cleared, and White is up the exchange and a couple of pawns. The pawns decide things quickly.

23.f4 b6 24.f5 a5 25.f6 Black resigned