A couple of posts ago (see"Jerome Gambit: Whatever Happened To...?") I queried
I was wondering the other day whatever happed to a couple of nefarious chess opening variations, the OMG Variation and the Face Palm Variation.
Those were 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Ng5 and 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Ng5+.
I then presented a couple of online blitz miniatures played by strong players (I did not give their names), and suggested an amount of "fun" must have been involved.
Chessfriend Yury V. Bukayev followed up with an email with his own possible explanatory hypothesis
Yes, this game [the second] (like another one) is strange. I can build some hypotheses about it. In fact, the Jerome gambit chess player (White) made two strange chess moves - 5.Ng5+ and 7.Nxh7+. His opponent made strange chess King moves. So my task here is to explain the play of both opponents. My first hypothesis is that both players wanted to play not ordinary chess, but "dying King's light pieces against dying King" new chess variant (?). In this case, White's moves - 4.Bxf7+, 5.Ng5+, 7.Nxh7+ - were made with a goal to lose pieces. So, it maybe, both players were glad as a result of this rapid checkmate after capturing of all King's light pieces: each of opponents thought, it maybe, that he isn't a loser here. In fact, I don't know rules of this possible new chess variant.
This sounds a bit like "losing chess" or "antichess" - interested Readers can check out the Lichess Antichess World Championship page at Perpetual Check.
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