Friday, August 1, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Madness

 


My Google Alerts has returned another find, a video titled "Jerome Gambit madness", by @Utkarshchess123.

It features a Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) 

ending in checkmate (not quite). The final  position, arising

out of Whistler's Defense, is actually a checkmate in 5 for Black.

It is another object lesson that White should not grab the poisoned Rook

on offer.


Readers can add 14.Kc3 Qc4+ 15.Kd2 Nf6 16.Qg7+ (every move loses)

Kxg7 17.Nc3 Qxd4+ 18.Ke1 Qxf2#

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