Jerome Gambit: The Ghost of Alonzo Wheeler Jerome Says Thank You

 

The Jerome Gambit offers many ways for the defender to err and lose. The following game illustrates one of them.

Tracy824 - Azrail72

5 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2024

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 

7.f4 Qf6 8.Rf1 Bd6

Over-protecting the Knight, but a slip. It happens in blitz.

The ghost of Alonzo Wheeler Jerome says Thank you.

9.fxe5 Qxe5 

Black's "best" was 9...Qg6, but after 10.Qh3+ Ke7 11.exd6+ cxd6 12.Nc3 Nf6 13.d3 his predicament would be worse than a simple pawn minus might indicate.

10.Qf7 checkmate

The games Petasluk - krasic, 5 0 blitz, FICS 2017 and Tracy824 - imad87, 5 0 blitz, lichess.org, 2024 tread the same path, earlier.