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Carllll - Pova_Vutin
1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2022
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qxe5 Qe7
Whistler's defense, referring to Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's correspondence match with Lt. G. N. Whistler, secretary of the Lexington, Kentucky Chess Club, was seen in Jerome - Whistler, correspondence, 1876 (0-1, 15).
8.Qxh8
As I recently wrote in "Jerome Gambit: Still, Advancing... (Part 1)"
Capturing the Rook is objectively dangerous (because of the counter-attack 8...Qxe4+) but the play can be complicated.
The complications complicate the problem: according to The Database, in 637 games with this capture of the Rook, White scored a surprising 62%.
Materially, White is up the exchange and a pawn, but Stockfish 15 evaluates him as almost a Queen down.
Is it wise to go into a "bad" variation, if you believe you can benefit from the complications?
The same question, of course, can be applied to the Jerome Gambit itself.
More sedate is the alternative 8.Qf4+.
8...Qxe4+
The Database points out that in 75% of the games, Black makes this powerful move.
If you are playing White and hoping that Black does not play 8...Qxe4+, your odds are better than drawing to an inside straight in poker - but still not good.
In the games that I have found played by Alonzo Wheeler Jerome against the defense, he has a draw and two losses. There is an indication that he lost more games to Whistler, that have not yet been discovered.
9.Kf1 Nf6 10.Nc3 Qxc2 11.g3 Qd3+ 12.Kg2 b6
The danger to both White's King and Queen is paramount.
White will have to either give up his Queen or be checkmated.
13.Rf1 Bb7+ 14.Kg1 Rxh8 White resigned
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