In the following game, the defender disappears, as if he had stepped in quicksand... even if he was rated 450+ points higher than the attacker.
You can check out the YouTube video, or just follow along with the moves below.
chessriddler - UnheardAutumn32
casual bullet game, lichess.org, 2023
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6
Black plays the Two Knights Defense. None of that silly Jerome Gambit stuff.
4.Bxf7+
An Impatient Jerome Gambit, played as early as Dr Draper - AW Child, Belfast - Dublin match2, 1891-2 (0-1, 20).
See "Jerome Gambit: Impatience" for more on the move.
4...Kxf7 5.Ng5+
chessriddler notes "Instead of taking the pawn on e file as we would expect."
When the time control is game in 30 seconds, this move can be hard to deal with: even if you "figure it out" it costs precious time on the clock.
5...Kg6
More from chessriddler - "Riddle style mindset reads know that stronger players typically march forward rather than go back into a square where we all have at some point experienced the Fried Liver Checkmate with a bishop. Also with Habits (An Aman [Hambleton, grandmaster] series as I'm sure you're aware) people can step into a net with the same ideas they would have in the Greek gift."
Safer were either 5...Kg8 or 5...Ke8, but, still, if Black can keep his wits about him...
6.h4 h6
7.h5+ Kxg5 8.d4 checkmate
"Worthy of note, the sequence for mate in 4 can be pre-moved yet a lot of players I've asked to calculate there just can't seem to allow themselves to drop more material in a mating sequence in their heads, thus they give up on the move where they would have to find Qf7+ and state "they can't do it" - almost 100% of people I've asked to find mate in 4 in their heads are a) under 1400 and b) would go to g8 instead of march forward. The players that can see the mating sequence would also play Kg6 instead of Kg8 as 90% of them have faced the fried liver mate and know the Greek Gift as well!!" finishes chessriddler
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