Monday, April 28, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Dangerous At Any Speed


In the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+), Black must be aware of the dangers that may arive along the f-file. Truly, it is dangerous at any speed, perhaps most deadly in bullet games.


angelcamina - SteelMovingOptician

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2025

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6 

7.Qd5+ Ke8 8.Qxc5 d6 9.Qb5+ Qd7 10.Qe2 Nf6 

11.O-O 

angelcamina has also played 11.Nc3 Kf7 (11...Rf8 12.O-O Kf7 13.d4 Kg8 14.f4 c5 15.e5 dxe5 16.dxe5 Nd5 17.Ne4 Ndxf4 18.Bxf4 Nxf4 19.Qf3 Qd4+ 20.Kh1 Ne6 21.Nf6+ gxf6 22.exf6 Rxf6 23.Qg3+ Rg6 24.Qb3 b6 25.Rae1 Qd6 26.Qf3 Bb7 27.Qxb7 Black resigned, angelcamina - knoekvent, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023) 12.O-O Re8 13 .d3 Kg8 14.f4 d5 15.e5 Qe6 16.exf6 Qb6+ 17.Qf2 Black resigned, angelcamina - vladandk, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2022. 

11...Ne5

There's something about this move... Black is returning his Knight to the Queenside.

Also 11...Kf7 12.d4 Re8 13.Nc3 Qg4 14.f3 Qh4 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.Qc4 Be6 17.exd5 Bd7 18.Qxc7 Rad8 19.Qxd6 Qxd4+ 20.Kh1 Kg8 21.c3 Nh4 22.cxd4 Re2 23.Qg3 Nf5 24.Qg5 Nxd4 25.Qxd8+ Kf7 26.Qxd7+ Black resigned, angelcamina - Dundulic, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2022. 

12.f4 Nc6 13.Nc3 Kf7 

14.e5 

Premature - but this is a bullet game, and deeper analysis has to wait until afterward.

14...dxe5 15.fxe5 Re8 

Pinning  the e-pawn to White's Queen, but 15...Qd4+, instead, would lead to its win.

16.Qc4+ Kf8 17.exf6 gxf6 


You can see what's coming.

18.d3 Re6 19.Bh6+ Kg8 20.Rxf6 Ne5 21.Qf4 

Or 21.Rf8+#

21...Ng6 22.Rf8+ Nxf8 23.Qxf8 checkmate




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