Jerome Gambit: Caffeine Deficiency Disorder

The other day, very early in the morning, suffering from Caffeine Deficiency Disorder, I played an odd Jerome Gambit against an online bot.

We reached the following position. Having regained my sacrificed material, I imagined that I was Alonzo Wheeler Jerome.

16.Bf4 Qd4+ 17.Kh1 Kb7 18.Nc3 c5 

This can't be good for Black.

19.e5+ d5 20.exd6+ Kb6 21.Nd5+ Kb7 

22.Nc7+ 

Fair enough, although 22.Nf6+ Kb8 23.Qc6 would have been a bit faster.

22...Kb6 23.bxc5+ Qxc5 24.Be3 Rhd8 25.Nxa8+ Ka5 26.Bxc5 g6 27.b4+ Ka4 28.Qd1 checkmate

Okay, that was fun. Still, in all fairness, it brings to mind a counter-balancing earlier post including

Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph

February 27, 1884

In Cincinnati we met a number of players in the Mercantile Library, the chess room of which... We also had the pleasure of contesting several games with Mr. Jerome, of Paxton, Ill. He is well known as the author of the so-called Jerome Gambit, in which white sacrifices the Bishop by taking KBP on the fourth move of the Giuoco Piano game. Neither the gambit nor its author proved strong in the contest.