Club players defending against the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) are often shocked by the early Bishop sacrifice, and this can put them off of their game right away.
In a recent email, Yury V. Bukayev shared a very old game (played approximately 400 years ago) that must be one of the earliest examples of psychological shock in chess.
NN - Gioachino Greco
miscellaneous game, 1620
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qh5
Yury says that most probably White plans Ng1-f3-g5 while Black should defend his pawns f7 and e5.
3...Qe7 4.Nc3
Yury says, it's a bad White's idea to include this move into his plan, because 4...Nf6! could destroy the whole plan. After 4.Nf3 Black can choose also a more aggressive way: 4...Bxf2+ (with the idea 5.Kxf2!? Qc5+!) or 4...Nf6 with enough complicated fight in both cases
4...c6 5.Nf3 Nf6
Yury says, the blow 5...Bxf2+ isn't good: 6.Kxf2! Qc5+ 7.d4 Qxc4 8.Qxe5+, and White captures the pawn g7 and gets the advantage : if 8...Kf8? then 9.Qc7! with a win.Yury says, it is Black's weak gambit, because after 6.Qxe5! Black gets the worse position: 6...Bxf2+ 7.Ke2! ; 6...Qxe5 7.Nxe5!, and here Black has no compensation for a pawn. We could see the strong Bxf7+ blow on the following possible way: 7...b5 8.Bxf7+! Ke7 9.Bb3 b4 10.Na4 Nxe4 11.Nxc5 Nxc5 12.Bc4, and White has a very large advantage, Yury says.
6.Qxe5 Bxf2+ 7.Kxf2
The result of shock. He would have done better with 7.Ke2. Now he will lose his Queen to a Knight fork.
7...Ng4+ 8.Kf1 Nxe5 White resigned
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