Another Open Italian Four Knights Jerome Gambit

The following game, a Jerome Gambit relative, has similar excitement and a similar unhappy ending for the second player.

angelcamina - Lelzwashere

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nxe4 5.Bxf7+ 

As I wrote in "Against the Knights", this is

The Noa Gambit, otherwise known as the Monck Gambit, otherwise known as the Open Italian Four Knights Jerome Gambit. White gets his sacrifice, after all.

5...Kxf7 6.Nxe4 d5 7.Neg5+ 

7.Nc3 was seen in angelcamina - florianschreib, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019. 

7...Kg8

Or 7...Ke8 as in angelcamina - Farbic, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024 (1-0, 35); and

Or 7...Kf6 as in angelcamina - GrainBowl, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023 (1-0, 12). 

8.d4 e4 9.Ne5 Nxe5 10.dxe5 

10...c6 

Alternatives:

10...h6 as in angelcamina - Otschin_Karascho, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024 (1-0, 16); and 

10...Be7 as in angelcamina - rutkaycabuk, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024, (1-0, 20). 

11.Nxe4 Bf5 12.Ng3 Bg6 13.O-O h6 

Black's two Bishops do not balance White's extra (passed) pawn and safer King.

14.f4 Be7 15.f5 Bf7 16.Qg4 Kh7 

Hoping to bring a piece go g8 to defend the g7 pawn.

17.Nh5 Bxh5 

Changing strategies.

18.Qxh5 Qb6+ 19.Kh1 Rhf8 

Hoping to hold up the advance of the f-pawn.

20.Qg6+ Kh8 21.f6 gxf6 22.exf6 c5 23.Qg7 checkmate