Jerome Gambit: You Still Have to Find the Moves (Part 3)

                        

The following game is another "twin", following in the footsteps of three previous games - although, separated by a few years.

It ended abruptly, while my position was still, admittedly, worse.

Jerome Gambit.

perrypawnpusher - Seishiro_Chess

Jerome Gambit Classic #1, Chess.com, 2024

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 

7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.f4 Qf6 

                                   

9.fxe5+ Qxe5 10.Qxe5+ Kxe5 

11.b4 Bd4 

Instead, 11...Bb6 was seen in perrypawnpusher - djdave28, Chess.com, Italian game tournament, 2014 (1-0, 22). 

12.c3 Bb6 13.d4+ Ke6 

Black can take the e-pawn (see perrypawnpusher - djdave28, Italian Game tourney, Chess.com, 2015 [1-0, 32] ) and survive, but why borrow trouble? The text preserves his advantage.

14.O-O 

A bit better was 14.Bb2. 

14...Nf6 15.Nd2 d6 16.Bb2 

Black resigned

This came as a bit of a surprise, especially since the game was still following perrypawnpusher - Altotemmi, Giuoco Piano Thematic Tournament, Chess.com, 2016 (0-1, 51).

A look at the crosstables showed that my opponent had resigned all of his games.