I am afraid that I was much too optimistic when I posted about "The Jerome-Botez Gambit" - 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxg7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qf3+ - yesterday, reporting that there was only one example of this unfortunate sideline in The Database.
A quick trip to the lichess.org website corrected that, as I found 20 game examples (and one more by transposition).
I am not sure which surprises me more, that Black score "only" 83%, or that Black chose to capture the Queen with 6...Nxf3+ only 67% of the time. Perhaps the fact that all but 3 games were played at bullet or ultra-bullet speed could account for instantaneous but erronious responses to 6.Qf3+.
Sometimes the world is a bit too complicated for me.
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