Jerome Gambit: 17th Piece Again

It is important to remember that in very fast time controls, the challanges that the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) provides to the defender are not always on the board.

Black can sometimes "solve" the Jerome, but that comes at the cost of thinking time. Sometimes too much thinking time.

The following game is an excellent example. Playing through the moves, you might get a bit of indigestion on the part of angelcamina, but, never fear, his "17th piece" comes through.

angelcamina - Jigsaw71

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6 7.Qd5+ Kf8 8.Qxc5+ N8e7 9.O-O d6 10.Qc4 c6 

(10...Ne5 11.Qb3 N7c6 12.f4 Nd7 13.Nc3 Qe8 14.d3 Qf7 15.Qa3 Kg8 16.Bd2 h5 17.Rae1 h4 18.Nd5 Nf6 19.Nxf6+ gxf6 20.Bc3 h3 21.g3 Bd7 22.e5 Qd5 23.Rf2 fxe5 24.fxe5 Nxe5 25.Bxe5 dxe5 26.Qe7 Re8 27.Qg5+ Kh7 28.Rf6 Qg2 checkmate, angelcamina - lucasmaps, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2022) 

11.f4 d5 12.exd5 cxd5 13.Qb3 Bf5 14.Nc3 Qb6+ 15.Kh1 Qxb3 16.axb3 Bxc2 17.b4 Bd3 18.Re1 a6 19.Re3 Bf5 20.d4 Kf7 21.g3 Rhe8 22.h3 Bxh3 23.Kh2 Bg4 24.Bd2 Nf5 25.Re5 Nxe5 26.dxe5 g6 27.Rh1 d4 28.Ne4 Rad8 29.Ng5+ Kg7 30.Kg2 d3 31.Rxh7+ Kg8 32.Rxb7 Nd4 33.Bc3 Ne2 34.Bd2 Rc8 35.Nh7 Rc2 36.Nf6+ White won on time