Sometimes the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) benefits from the complications of a defensive strategy that comes up short.
In the following game, the defender has ideas on how to deal with the attack, and perhaps against a different opponent, or possibly on a different day, it might have worked; but in the end, it helped the attacker with his plans.
Wall, Bill - Zulfikar
internet, 2021
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.d4 Bxd4
The simplest and strongest Bishop move.
7.Qxd4 d6
8.O-O Be6
It is a small thing, but the Bishop is now a possible target for White's f-pawn. Keep it in mind.
9.f4 Nc6 10.Qd3 Na5
A standard criticism of the Jerome Gambit is that White's Queen makes too many moves. Here, we see Black's Knight bouncing around. It is true that he has a plan - running the Bishop to c4 to skewer White's Queen and Rook - but there are risks. More solid would have been 10...Nf6.
11.Nd2
Covering c4.
11...c6 12.b4
Hitting the Knight on the rim. Black has seen this far, and a little bit further - but White has seen even further than that.
12...Qb6+ 13.Kh1 Qxb4
Saving the Knight, but feeding the fire of White's attack.
14.Ba3 Qa4 15.f5 Bc4 16.Qxd6 Nf6
If 16...Bxf1 17.Qe6 checkmate
17.Nxc4 Nxc4 18.Qe6 checkmate
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