Yury V. Bukayev adds some more to the report on two online bullet games between top GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ("LyonBeast") and top GM Hikaru Nakamura (" Hikaru ") - see "Jerome Gambit: Modern Top GM Interest's Origins (Parts 1 & 2)".
There is coverage of the second game, from 2020, in the YouTube video
Commenting on the Hamppe-Muzio variation of the Vienna Gambit as it was played, GM Leko says "It's not going to work, and anyway even if by a miracle it would work, it would not bring anything..." He is reflecting upon the fact that GM Nakamura was too far ahead in the match at that point for a win to matter.
As Yury pointed out earlier, the opening line did work the first time the two players contested it, in 2016, and GM Vachier-Lagrave won. In the 2020 game covered in the video, GM Nakamura improved upon his play and took the full point.
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