Jerome Gambit: Chaos

The Jerome Gambit is a strange opening. It is chaotic enough that players who have positions that are advantageous, lose. This is one reason that bullet or blitz players are drawn to it.

Check out the following game. 

Foxterie - TainoGood

10 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2022

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.f4 Nd3+

I like this quirky move. Stockfish 15 does, too, seeing Black as almost 4 pawns better. Still, The Database has 25 games with this move, with White scoring 64%.

As I wrote in "Jerome Gambit: It Takes More Than A Move"

Creative and cool.

Anyone who has read Aron Nimzowitsch's The Blockade will recognize the idea behind this move.

Something similar is equally deadly for Black, when the d-pawn is blocked, which in turn blocks the Bishop, which then keeps the Rook from entering the game. 

I have looked at this move before, in "Brilliant, but Not Sound" and "Jerome Gambit: The Hurrieder I Go, The Behinder I Get", where you will see Petasluk mentioned as well.

8.cxd3 Be7 

Black turns conservative, withdrawing his attacked Bishop. Instead, he needed to continue to play actively, with 8...d5.

9.Qf5+  Kd6 10.Qd5 checkmate