Dan Middlemiss sent me over 100 Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) games played on lichess.org by DutchLiLi, someone who really seems to enjoy the opening.
This has provided me an opportunity to see what lines DutchLiLi likes, and what success they have brought. The following game is a good illustration.
DutchLiLi - winielicaballero
3 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2020
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
This move - which poses the question, Can Black develop his light square Bishop at the cost of the b-pawn? - is a favorite of DutchLiLi's. He has scored 25 - 13 - 4 (64%) with it, which is pretty convincing.
8...Nf6 9.d3 Re8 10.Qb3+ Be6 11.Qxb7 Bd5
Black has a sharp retort to the pawn capture, and has to have been a bit scary considering the time control - 3-minute blitz - but White keeps his compusure.
12.Qb4 Nxe4
Nice.
13.O-O Rb8 14.Qa3
14...Nxf2
Here is the first: the position remains complicated, something which favors the player more familiar and comfortable with the opening.
Instead of the text, Stockfish 13 recommends the not-so-exciting repositioning of the Knight with 14...Ng5.
15.Nc3
Strong enough to give White a slight advantage.
15...Qh4
The computer's suggestion is interesting: 15...Bxg2!? 16.Kxg2 Re1!? (planning to draw after 17.Rxe1 Nh4+ 18.Kxf2 Qf5+) 17.Qa5 (hoping to get the Queen back into play, but Black brings about an even endgame ) Rxf1 18.Kxf1 Ng4 19.Qd5+ Kf8 20.Qf5+ Qf6 21.Qxf6+ Nxf6.
16.Qxa7
Brash, but he can get away with it.
16...Qg4
Might as well. The mundane 16...Bb7 would allow 17.Qxf2+ clarifying things. But the text is a slip.
17.Nxd5
And here White's second advantage played out: he won on time
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