Jerome Gambit: The Kitchen Sink

In the following game, Trankuilizer, playing at lichess.org, gives "Jerome Gambit odds" to his opponent, and then begins to throw everything at him, including the kitchen sink.

Trankuilizer - casutanta123

3 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2020

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.O-O 

This is a calm start to what will become a wild attack. Trankuilizer has gone this way over 20 times.

5...Nf6 6.d4 

This is a 3-minute game, and material does not matter as much as initiative and attack.

6...Bxd4 7.Bg5 Qf8 

Moving the Queen out of the pin. Black is feeling the pressure of the coming attack, and so passes on the win of more material 7...Bxb2 8.Nbd2 Bxa1.  

8.c3 Bb6 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nh4 

White opens the d1-h5 diagonal for his Queen.

Stockfish 15 sees Black as better, but human players feel the heat more than computers do.

10...Rg8 11.Nf5 Ke8 12.Qh5+ Rg6 13.Nd2 d6 14.Nf3 

White's second Knight joins the fray - it has to, objectively, and the danger builds.

14...Bxf5 15.exf5 e4 

Black strikes back - and causes himself great pain. This is the kind of thing that happens in fast blitz game, when your opponent is amping up the attack. Boring, but safe, was 15...Qh6, initating the exchange of Queens and taking the pressure off of the Kingside.

16.fxg6 exf3 

According to plan. There was little attraction in 16...hxg6 17.Qxg6+ Qf7, playing on while down the exchange and some pawns.  

White now wraps things up.

17.g7+ Qf7 18.g8/Q+ Ke7 19.Qhxf7 checkmate

Brutal.