When you play bullet chess - say, with a time limit of one minute, no increment - the element of surprise can be an effective weapon. I mean, say, what if you are planning on playing an Evans Gambit as White, but your opponent switches things up with an unusual counter-gambit?
This might have been what happened in Angel CamiƱa's recent lichess.org 1 0 game - except that he probably was planning on playing the Jerome Gambit, and he also had his own counter- surprise.
angelcamina - umutkaraca09
1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4
The Blackburne Shilling Gambit. Blackburne might have played the opening, but I haven't found any of his games with it. (Black whispers: take the pawn, take the pawn, take the pawn...)
4.Bxf7+
The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit. I haven't found any games with it played by Alonzo Wheeler Jerome, but you know he would have loved to give it a try. (Black face palms and whispers: not that pawn...)
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 6.Qh5+ Ke7
7.Qf7+ Kd6 8.Nc4+ Kc6 9.Qd5 checkmate
(Black: Ouch)
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