One defensive idea for facing the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) is exchanging Queens - sometimes even at the cost of returning the sacrificed material.
In the following game, Bill's opponent simplifies things - he thinks. The resulting Queenless middlegame / endgame still has many dangers, including, in the end, checkmate.
Wall, Bill - Guest380145
PlayChess.com, 2021
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.d4 Bb4+ 7.c3 Nc6
Black's method of returning some of the sacrificed material leads to a game where he has a slight edge.
8.cxb4 Nxb4
Quickly returning more.
9. Qb3+ Ke8 10.Qxb4 Qe7
Holding things together, but Bill is willing to enter a Queenless middlegame a pawn up.
11.Qxe7+ Nxe7 12.Nc3 c6 13.O-O h6
Black has arranged to avoid the cut-and-slash lines of the Jerome Gambit. He has given White an easy game to play, however - and, again, there is that extra pawn.
14.f4 Rf8 15.Bd2 d6 16.f5 b5
To fianchetto the Bishop at b7, and possibly undermine the protection of White's center with b5-b4, but there will not be time for that.
17.g4 Bb7 18.e5 dxe5 19.dxe5 Rd8 20.Ne4 Nc8
An awkward necessity to keep White's Knight out of d6. Possibly Black had anticipated the Knight fork of King and Bishop, and had planned to capture White's Bishop at d2 in return - but, say 20...c5 (an otherwise useful move) 21.Nd6+ and Black's King would be forced to d7, blocking the action of his Rook.
21.f6 g5
If 21...gxf6 then 22.Bxh6.
22.Bc3 Rf7 23.Rad1 Rd5 24.e6
Those pesky "Jerome pawns"!
24...Rxd1 25.exf7+ Kxf7 26.Rxd1 Black resigned
White is Rook up, and Komodo 10 says that he has a checkmate in 10 as well.
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