I always experience a bit of psychic pain when I face the Jerome Gambit, instead of play it.
Worse yet, I have a slightly better score defending, compared to attacking.
So when I was recently challenged...
NN - perrypawnpusher
chess.com, 2026
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qxe5 Qe7
As I noted in "Flaws (Part II)", concerning Blackburne's 7...d6
...Black has a stronger counter-attack here, starting with 7...Qe7! as Jerome discovered to his dismay in the games of his correspondence match with Lt. G. N. Whistler, secretary of the Lexington, Kentucky Chess Club, in 1876.
My advice, here, was clear in my post"Jerome Gambit: Don't Take the Rook" - mind you, in 7 games with the Black pieces in this position, I scored 100% when my opponent did take the Rook.
8.Qxh8
For 8.Qd5+!?, see Yury V. Bukayev's "Anatoly Karpov & Jerome Gambit (Parts 7 & 8)" and "JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology (Parts 15 & 16)",
White is up the exchange and a pawn, but his King is in dire straits.
If 11.Ke1 Nf6 12.d3 Qg2 13.Rf1 d5 14.Qd8 (14.Bg5 Qxf1+ 15.Kxf1 Bh3+ 16.Kg1 Rxh8 17.Nd2 Ng4 18.Be3 Nxe3 19.fxe3 Bxe3+ White resigned, wolfwerner - perrypawnpusher, Jerome Gambit Classic #1, 2024) 14...Qxf1+ White resigned, Seishiro_Chess - perrypawnpusher, Jerome Gambit Classic #1, 2024.
11...b6
More to the point than 11...Qe6 12.Kg2 (12.d4, 12.Qxh7+) Qe4+ 13.Kg1 Qe1+ 14.Kg2 Qxf2+ 15.Kh3 d5+ 16.g4 Qf3+ 17.Kh4 Qxg4 checkmate, IndeedPerhapsYes - perrypawnpusher, Chess.com, 2021
12.Qc3
With a defensive idea, but now Black has a forced checkmate.
12...Bb7 13.Qc4+ Kg7 14.Qf1
14...Qg4 15.h4 Qxg3+ 16.Qg2 Qxg2 checkmate
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