He Should Have Played the Jerome Gambit

In the following game an inventive and aggressive bullet player finds that his creativity takes him a bit too far - with unfortunate results.

It didn't have to go that way. 

Jerome.

Yasin_SUST - frastornante

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nxe5 

We have seen this relative to a Chicago Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nxe5) played by Yasin_SUST in "Jerome Gambit: Wandering (Parts 1 & 2)"

Now, after 4...Nxe5, Yasin_SUST has scored 5 - 2; and he was 4 - 0 with the followup 5.Bxf7+ - and three of those games transposed to the Jerome Gambit with 5...Kxf7.

4...Qf6 

Counter-punching. It looks primative, but in 1-minute games surprise moves can have their impact.

5.Nxf7 

Clearly, a piece must capture on f7, but the (Jerome) way was 5.Bxf7+ Kf8 6.Nd3 Qxf7 7.Nxc5 Qg6 8.O-O and White has a couple of extra pawns. Less good for Black would be an alternate King move, i.e. 5.Bxf7+ Kd8 6.Nxc6+ bxc6 7.Qf3.

5...Qxf2 checkmate

A reversed form of the Scholar's Mate. Ouch.

Such things can happen when you have only 60 seconds for a whole game.

In fact, it has happened before in the game Do, Nguyen Bao - Khuu, Dich Tai, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2014, although, to be fair, that was an under-7 game.