Jerome Gambit: No One Ever Won A Game By Resigning

International Grandmaster Savielly Tartakower once mused that "No one ever won a game by resigning."

To that can be added the fact that in a 1-minute bullet game, just about anything can happen. 

angelcamina has over 1,200 games in The Database. The following win was recently added.

angelcamina - DiegoDac17

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

4.Bxf7+ 

Black was hoping for 4.Nxe5?!, so he could respond 4...Qg5!?

Instead, he meets the Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke6 6.Qh5 Qf6 

Black's defense of his King is solid, and his Knight threatens a fork at c2.

angelcamina has also tried 6...Nf6 7.Qf7+ Kxe5 8.f4+ in angelcamina - rabirabi, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019 (1-0, 13); angelcamina - shahramkhoshseffat, 1 0 bullet, lichess. org, 2019 (1-0, 13); and  angelcamina - luquitas2018, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2020 (1-0, 21). 

7.Ng4 

Best. 

He had experimented with 7.Qe8+ without encouraging results: angelcamina - Skhokho1507, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019 (1-0, 12); angelcamina - Mohamed461, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019 (0-1, 21); angelcamina - reay, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2020 (0-1, 17); angelcamina - Javier_Electrico, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2021 (0-1, 22); angelcamina - Gab20, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2021 (1-0, 15); and angelcamina - Pionputih_CSI, 1-0 bullet, lichess.org, 2022 (1/2 - 1/2, 18).

7...Qg6 8.Qd5+ Ke7 9.Ne5 Qd6

Better than 9...Nxc2+ 10.Kd1 and then 10...Qxg2 as in angelcamina -artemchumakov, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019 (1-0, 13) or 10...Qe6, as in angelcamina - regullele, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2020 (1-0, 16). 

10.Qf7+ Kd8 11.d3 Nxc2+ 12.Kd2 Nxa1 13.Kd1 

A messy position with two uneasy Kings, but Black is better.

13...Nh6 

It is a mistake to take the Knight offside.

14.Bg5+ Be7 15.Bxh6 

The safer path, according to Stockfish 16.1, was 15.Qxg7 c6!? 16.Qxh8+ Kc7 17.f4 b5 18.Nd2 Bb7 19.Qg7 Ng8 20.Bxe7 Nxe7 21.Qxh7 - but remember, this was a 1-minute game: No human club player is going to figure all that out in seconds.

15...gxh6 16.Qg7 

Black need only safeguard his Rook, and things will be looking good.

16...Re8 

Oh, dear. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

17.Nf7 checkmate