Jerome Gambit Video By Top GM Nakamura & New Analysis

When I mentioned in an earlier post a video by Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on the Jerome Gambit, I neglected to give the title, "How to win with the Jerome gambit". Yury V. Bukayev let me know about this error, and I have made the correction. GM Nakamura shows here not only his won games. Thus, in the middle of his video (please, see it since 38:27 till 40:40) he shows his game as Black with the very strong opponent (Mrkooshaj - GMHikaruOnTwitch, 3 0 blitz, Chess.com, 2021), where his opponent has surprised him, probably:

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.f4 Qf6 9.fxe5+ Qxe5 10.Qxe5+ Kxe5 11.b4 Bd4 12.c3 Bb6 13.d4+ Kxe4 14.O-O Nf6 15.Bg5 d6 16.Nd2+ Kd3 17.Rf3+ .

Yury also pointed out that at the end of this game there was an interesting alternative (not mentioned on the video):

Here Black played 17...Kc2 and resigned after 18.Nc4, as he is helpless against the threat of Rc1 checkmate, e.g. 18...Bxd4+ 19.cxd4 Be6 20.Rc1#

Had Black played 17...Ke2, Yury noted that 18.Nf1 would have been the best response, leading to the most rapid checkmate, with either Ng3 or Re3, and that can only be briefly put off, e.g. 18...Bxd4+ 19.cxd4 Be6 20.Ng3# (or 20.Re3#).