Black has many defenses to the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+), some focused on returning one of the two gambitted pieces. In the following game, Bill Wall faces one that he has encountered - and defeated - 20 times previously. I suspect his advice to his opponent would be: Just. Don't.
Wall, Bill - NN
Florida, 2019
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.d4 Bd6
Not the best defense: the game is already even, according to Stockfish 10, even though Black is two pieces ahead.
7.dxe5 Bxe5
This move is a troublesome companion to the previous one, shifting the evaluation of the game to White's favor. According to The Database, out of 160 games, Black played this move 139 times.
8.Qd5+
The proper response.
8...Kf6
He is not going to be able to save the Bishop, but retreating the King is not much better.
9.f4 c6
10.fxe5+
An improvement over 10.Qxe5+, which still won for White in Wall,B - Neilson,C, Melbourne, FL 2016, (1-0, 24).
10... Ke7 11.Qd3 Qa5+ 12.Nc3 Qxe5
Material is even, but development and King safety are not.
13.O-O h6
Keeping White's Bishop off of g5, but hastening the end.
14.Bf4 Qc5+ 15.Be3 Qh5 16.e5 Ke8 17.Ne4 Ne7 18.Nd6+
Kd8 19.Nf7+ Black resigned
Nice.
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