The following game brings to mind the notion of roller skating on ice - the defender never seems to get his balance, and a fall is always expected. It is useful to play over the game, move-by-move, and ask yourself what White should do, next - someday you may have such an opportunity, and it is good to be ready.
Wall, Bill - Guest2756586
PlayChess.com, 2020
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.d4 Bxd4 7.Qxd4 d5
The move ...d7-d5 is often helpful in double e-pawn openings, and that includes the Jerome Gambit, but here the defender has overlooked the fact that his Knight is en prise. Better 7...d6.
8.Qxe5 Qd7
Creative. Safer was 8...Nf6.
9.Qh5+ Kf8 10.Bg5
Komodo 10 recommends 10.Qxd5, but there has to be more to the position, from a human point of view, than entering a Queenless middlegame after 10...Qxd5 11.exd5.
10...Nh6
No doubt avoiding White's intended 10...Nf6 11.Bxf6, but the time for psychology was well passed.
11.Bxh6 gxh6 12.Qxh6+ Ke8
To support the Queen when she comes to g7 to make the exchange...
14.Nxd5 Qg7 15.Nf6+ Black resigned
Disrupted to the end: Black can move his King and protect his Rook, only to realize that after 15...Kf7 16.Nxg8 White has protected his own Queen, and 16...Kxg8 17.Qxg7+ Kxg7 is not survivable, unless White's clock is ready to flag.
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