Jerome Gambit: The Face Palm Variation Rides Again

I am sharing the following game because of my commitment to share all of my Jerome Gambits here.

It doesn't really advance Jerome theory, except, perhaps, to reinforce the oddness of the opening. It's the Jerome Gambit - go figure.

chess01 2 - perrypawnpusher

Jerome Gambit Classic #1, Chess.com,  2024

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Ng5+ 

Dropping a piece. This is the kind of thing that you could expect to see in a 1-minute bullet game full of excitement - but the current game was played at a time control of 1 move per day.

Perhaps it is a reflection of my opponent's busy-ness in the outside world. After all, one of my own games in the tournament had an early mouse-slip because I was hurrying to get all of my games caught up: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Ke7?

As I wrote in "Jerome Gambit: Uncomfortable"

Of course, there is also 5.Ng5+, the "Face Palm Variation" (see the post "Jerome Gambit: The SMH Variation", among others) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Ng5+.

For the record, The Database has 729 games with 5.Ng5+. White scores 26%. lichess.com is not much more encouraging, with 32,390 games with 5.Ng5+ where White scores 31%. 

5...Qxg5 6.d4 

Interestingly enough, instead, after 6.O-O Qg6, Black won on time in mazakoten - perrypawnpusher, Jerome Gambit Classic #1, 2024. That might also be a case of not enough time in the real world, as in that round of the tournament mazakoten won 12 games - and lost 10 on time. 

6...Qxg2 7.Rf1 Qxe4+ 8.Be3 exd4 

Here White lost on time.

In this round in the tournament, chess01 2 lost 15 games on time - but won all of his remaining 7 games.

Go figure.