Jerome Gambit: The Choice of Chess Hooligans!

Searching the internet the other day, I ran across a couple of videos (Russian language, I believe), each covering an online Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game, with commentary by the player of the White pieces - in this case, Chess-For-All, at lichess.org.

One was aptly titled "Jerome Gambit - A Killer Weapon in the Italian Game!" and the other was referenced as "Jerome Gambit - the choice of chess hooligans!"

Chess-For-All has appeared in these posts, before - see "Jerome Gambit: A Day in the Life".

A check at lichess.org showed me that Chess-For-All is the handle of Alexey Pugach, of Dnepr, Ukraine (FIDE rating 2166). Pugach has his own collection of educational chess videos on YouTube, by the way.

That name might sound familiar to Readers, and a quick look back at the post "Jerome Gambit: More GMs? (Part 1)" would show that he had previously played under the handle ChessCoachUA.

A check of Chess-For-All's games at lichess.org turned up 25 Jerome Gambits, most played at a 3 0 blitz, or 1 0 bullet, time control, scoring an impressive 78%.

I have added Chess-For-All's Jerome Gambits to The Database.

Here is one of the YouTube games.