I was able to find on TwitchTV a video including the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game between "Cliff Hardy" and Grandmaster Martin Kraemer (playing under the handle DrawDenied_Twitch) covered in the last 3 posts (1, 2, 3).
Although I speak French like a Spanish cow, my German is even weaker - having picked up what little I know mostly from Randspringer magazines - so Grandmaster Kraemer's German language commentary and the chat in the background is best appreciated by those who sprechen deutsche.
I was able to note someone in the chat during the early moves of the game labelling Cliff Hardy as ein Trickspeiler - a trickster - which seems appropriate for someone who plays the Jerome Gambit.
Eventually there was the chat comment, Now I have it: it is the Jerome-Gambit. (Thank you, Google Translate.)
As Cliff commented to me
I even made out a tiny bit of English which explained a couple of his feelings on the moves. He said, "Easy peasy" when I allowed 26...Bg4+, which I guess was justified and "idiot" when I had the chance to win a piece with 36.Rf5+.
There was also a chat reference to Grandmaster Aman Hambleton, whose YouTube video on the Jerome has had almost 3/4 million views - pretty impressive.
In the Twitch TV video, I watched with excitment as the grandmaster's clock ran down almost to zero. Would he escape a time forfeit? I watched a second time, again expecting him to flag. It was like the old joke
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