Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit: Faster Than A Speeding...

The following game shows that when fast time controls are in play, it is worth playing aggressively and taking risks - within reason.

Chicco79 - jim714

5 0 blitz, Eastern Blitz Arena, lichess.org, 2025

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 

The Blackburne Shilling Gambit

4.Bxf7+ 

The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Kf6 6.O-O 

Offering the Knight on e5. It can be taken - with care.

6...Kxe5 7.c3 Ne6 8.Qh5+ 

This is a 5-minute blitz game, and such moves are often tried - and are often successful.

Also fun, for the attacker, is 8.d4 Kxe4? 9.Qf3 checkmate.

A Jerome-ish, pawnful alternative, is 8.d4 Kf6 (best) 9.f4 h5 10.f5 Ng5 11.e5 Kf7 althought the line is, admittedly, better for Black (Stockfish 16.1, 30 ply, less than a pawn).

8...Qg5 

You can move your Queen, I can move my Queen.

Ill-advised, but, again, this is blitz.

9.f4+ 

Uh oh.

There is also 9.d4+ Kf6 10.Bxg5+ Nxg5 11.e5+ Ke7 12.Qxg5+. 

9...Nxf4

Yes, and No. In this kind of position, it hardly matters.

10.Qxg5+ Black resigned