Jerome Gambit: A Map

Experience with an opening line is like a map to help you along the way. 

In the following game, White shows that he has the proper directions.

angel_camina - StaleDustyBelly

1 1 bullet, Chess.com, 2024

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 

7.Qxe5 Bd6 

 Recently seen in "Not Poisoned But Tasty". 

In a bullet game, one grabs whatever tactic or threat is at hand. Unfortunaetly for Black, angelcamina has been in this position 14 times previously and knows that the Rook is not "poisoned".

One player has the map to this opening, the other does not.

8.Qxh8 Qg5 

I would not be surprised to learn that StaleDustyBelly has played the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, as in that counter-attacking defense ...Qg5 is a dynamic part of the opening. 

Alas, The Database has 37 games with 8...Qg5, and White scores  84%. 

9.Qxh7+ Ke8 10.O-O 

No need to be greedy, although 10.Qxg8+ Bf8 11.O-O was an alternate path. 

10...Nf6 11.Qh8+ Ke7 12.d4 

Threatening the Queen, as well as a fork at e5.

12...Qg4 

13.e5 b6 

Hoping against hope: if he can get his Bishop to b7, he can threaten both checkmate and the enemy Queen.

However, White now has a forced checkmate.

14.Qxf6+ Ke8 15.exd6 c6 16.Re1+ Black resigned

White will win Black's Queen after 16...Qe6, and then deliver checkmate the next move.

(Yes, yes, Readers, White also had 16.Qe7 checkmate. You win your way, angelcamina will win his.)