In the Washing Machine

 

Wandering the internet, again, I ran across a ton of short videos at "Chess With Durks" on TikTok, including one on the Jerome Gambit, and one featuring a variation of the Scotch Gambit - "In the Washing Machine" - so called because White is "throwing him [Black's King] around in the washing machine."

The Jerome Gambit game in the video features a rare line (I have only 5 examples in The Database). 

I noted in "Jerome Gambit: Warping Players' Minds?" 

* I had seen it in the video "jerome gambit | the jerome gambit | how to play the jerome gambit | The Master Tricks | chess traps", and, before that, in the game blackburne - karmmark, Jerome Gambit Thematic tournament, ChessWorld.net, 2007.

The Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.f4 Nc6 8.Qxc5 Qe7 9.Qd5+ Kf6 10.Qf5 checkmate

And the "washing machine"? Durks has two videos.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.0–0 Nxe4 

The Open Variation of the Two Knights Defense.

6.Nc3

The earliest example that I can find of this piece offer is Trajkovic, Mihajlo - Trifunovic, Petar, Belgrade (13), 1952 (0-1, 55).

Harding and Botterill, in their The Italian Game (1977) note [notation changed from descriptive to algebraic]

9.Nc3?! is interesting but unsound: a) 6...dxc3? 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qd5+ Ke8 9.Re1 with a strong attack b) 6...Nxc3! 7.dxc3 d5 8.Bb5 Be7 9.Nxd4 (or 9.Re1 0-0) Bd7 10.Ne2 a6 11.Ba4 Na5 -/+ Novopashin - Nezhmetdinov, Kislovodsk, 1966.  

6...dxc3 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qd5+ Ke7 

As an aside, in this line White has sacrificed a Bishop and a Knight, as in the Jerome Gambit, but in a different manner.

The King hunt is on.

9.Qxe4+ Kf7 10.Ng5+ Kf6 11.Qf4+ Kg6 12.Qf7+ Kh6 13.g4 Qe8

The offer of the Queen is only a distraction. In another video, Durks shows the alternative, 13...Qf6, but it doesn't change the outcome of the game.

 14.Ne6+ g5 15.Bxg5 checkmate