Jerome Gambit: Familiar Territory

If you face angelcamina on the internet, one of your difficulties is that he is a very good player at bullet time speed.

Another is that he might play the Jerome Gambit - he has over 1,450 games in The Database - further increasing your woes.

angelcamina - nishantchess16

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.Qc4 

White's alternative Queen retreats include 9...Qe3 (to safety) and 9...Qb5+ (considering the capture of the b-pawn, if it becomes available).

According to The Database, angelcamina is 8 - 6 - 1 with the text move. 

9...Qe7 10.O-O Be6 11.Qb5+ 

Also 11.Qb4 Nf4 12.d4 Qg5 13.Bxf4 Qxf4 14.Qxb7 Rc8 15.Nc3 Bf5 16.exf5 Black resigned, angelcamina - jpvalleym 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023 (1-0, 16) ; 

or 11.Qb4 Rb8 as in angelcamina - suertes, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023 (0-1, 13); or 

11.Qf4 b6 as  in angelcamina - Hamiltonkingone, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023 (0-1, 41).

Finally, 11.Qa4+ as in angelcamina - FPK-ural, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2022 (1-0, 19) 

11...Kf7

Black's only chance for equality (or better) was 11...c6.

12.f4 

Or 12.Qxb7 as in angelcamina - keijozz, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2023 [1-0, 31]) 

12...Rb8 

Or 12...Nf6 as in angelcamina - tummybos 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024 (1-0, 15) - still 12...c6 was better. 

White's pawn fork will now win material.

13.f5 Bxf5 14.exf5 Ne5 15.d4 Nc6 16.Nc3 Nxd4 

Hoping to keep material even, Black grabs a pawn - but falls to a standard Jerome Gambit tactic.

17.Qc4+ Ke8 18.Qxd4 Nf6 19.Bg5 Kd7 20.Rae1 Qf7 

White's piece development and Black's uneasy King allow for more tactics.

21.Re6 Rbe8 22.Rfe1 Rxe6 23.fxe6+ 

23...Ke7 

Instead, giving up the Queen with 23...Qxe6 was the only move to avoid a quick checkmate.

24.exf7+ Kxf7 25.Bxf6 gxf6 26.Nd5 Re8 27.Qxf6+ Kg8 28.Rxe8 checkmate