Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Things Happen in Bullet Chess

 

I asked the artistic side of ChatGPT to help me illustrate the following Jerome Gambit game, to show my best explanation for Black's 12th move (a pawn should have moved to d6).

Things happen in bullet chess.

NN - NN

2 1 bullet, lichess.org, 2025

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 

7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.f4 Qf6 9.fxe5+ Qxe5 10.Qf3 Nf6 

11.d3 Kc6 

As Cliff Hardy once noted, "Very rare for someone to find this risky-looking, but pugnacious, move - and in bullet too!"

12.Nc3 Kd6 

I don't think that this was the intended move.

13.Bf4 Black resigned




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