Jerome Gambit: Not All Ideas Are Created Equal

I have mentioned before that

Gerald Abrahams wrote in his book, The Chess Mind, that the smallest unit in a chess game was not the move, but the idea.

However, experience has shown that not all ideas are created equal. This is true in chess, as illustrated in the following blitz game.

joca552000 - VCoder18

8 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2023

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qxe5 Bf8 

Black's idea: his dark square Bishop is ready to pounce if White dares to capture on h8; otherwise it will take the long diagonal on the next move.

8.Qxh8 h6 

With thoughts about trapping and then executing the enemy Queen.

9.Qc3 Bg7

The Bishop takes its rightful place at g7, but the Queen has escaped.

White is up the exchange and a couple of pawns, and that gives Black another idea.

 Black resigned