Jerome Gambit: Never Say Never

Never say never. It can happen...

Yumari_Warina - minhduc2014st1

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.c3 

A "modern" variation, as opposed to the "classical" line starting with 5.Nxe5+ that Alonzo Wheeler Jerome played.

5...h6 

Transposing into a Semi-Italian Jerome Gambit, keeping White's pieces off of g5.

6.O-O Nf6 7.d4 Bd6 

Black's King looks quite safe - but this is a 1-minute bullet game, and anything can happen.

8.Re1 Re8 9.Qb3+ Kf8 10.Nh4 

I could never get away with this. Yumari_Warina does.

10...exd4 11.Ng6 checkmate.

Ouch.

I like the cooperation of the Knight and Queen. 

I have seen this before in The Database

thetaxman - shipwrecked FICS 2011

majorminor - springfield FICS 2004