Jerome Gambit: Took Less Time Than It Takes to Tell

If you know your Jerome Gambit, and can think and move quickly, bullet chess can be a successful arena of play for you.

Check out the following online game from angelcamina, who has a whole minute to get the Jerome Gambit to work for him, and does just fine.

angelcamina - janpecsok18
1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2018

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

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6

So far, so good for Black - but is this part of a defense he knows, or is this a reflex reaction to the check?

7.Qxe5 Nf6

Reflex. Black returns a second piece, and tries to find his way in an opening he doesn't know - two pawns down.

8.Qxc5 d6 9.Qe3 Rf8

Castling-by-hand is a standard defensive maneuver, and maybe Black should have continued.

10.O-O Be6

Sometimes this move is okay, and sometimes it is bad, but it always screams "throw a pawn at me!" to White.

11.d4 Qd7

This might be aimed at preventing f2-f4-f5, or it might be a bit of quick development (the clock is ticking), but 11...Kg8 was probably more consistent.

12.f4 c5

Aimed at the growing White mass of pawns.

13.e5 

Or 13.d5

White's position is better, the first player knows what he is doing - and he might even be ahead on the clock.

13...dxe5 14.fxe5 Bf5

Trying to block the dangerous f-file, but Black can not afford to return any more material.

15.exf6 Kxf6 16.Qe5+ Kf7 17.g4 Black resigned

And that's that. Reminds me of the action sequence that "took less time than it takes to tell".

Nicely done.