Recently I received an interesting Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game from Devin Brown, along with some comments about the play. I thought I would present the game, add some diagrams (and a comment or two, in blue), but let Devin's play - and his words - mostly speak for themselves.
Hello again Rick,
I bring to you the antithesis of the previous game I submitted (A game of desperation and opportunity).
Dattrollz vs TitoBabel
3 0 blitz, Chess.com, 2021,
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7
We start off with Aman Hambleton's Jerome Gambit with the 7.Qd5+...
[In his YouTube video on the Jerome Gambit, Grandmaster Aman Hambleton re-discovered this "nudge", first played by Alonzo Wheeler Jerome against O.A. Brownson, in their 1875 game in Iowa (1-0, 28)]
7...Ke8 8.Qxc5 d6 9.Qe3 Be6 10.O-O Qe7
15.Nd5
where I have smothered the bishop into the a-column and have tempo on the queen. After Black's
15...Qd7
I knew I had a game and sought to seize it with the only tried and true method of the Jerome, attacking with no time for the opponent to even realize what's going on. So I being my seige with
16.Qg5
16...Nge7
so I gobbled up a free g-pawn.
17.Qxg7
Afterwards he moves
17...Re8
to prevent my knight fork, but that was never my plan. I don't intend to trade my best attacking piece for a rook that just got his morning coffee. Thus I gobbled another free pawn
18.Qxh7 Ne5
and proceeded to play
19.Qh5+
19...Kd8 20.Qh6 Rg8
At this point I go for the fork and he attempts to BAMNOOZLE me with the desperate
21...Nxf5
but alas I remain calm cool and collected and simply take back leaving my knight still lined up for the kill.
22.exf5
After his
22...Qg7
I finally realize it's time to let go of my trusty steed and force a queen trade to either lead my pawn to glory or to see all his pieces in the shadow realm (He took the latter).
23.Nxg8 Qxg8
after his
38...d5
I landed the final blow
39.cxd5
before the sands of time decided that his time had come.
White won on time
Earlier I mentioned that 20...Rg8 was his 3rd worst blunder, the second was the scandalous 21...Nxf5, and his 1st was 3...Bc5.
[Thank you for sharing your game and analysis, Devin]
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