We have met Panikin_Skywalker previously.
As I wrote, then
One more note: Depending on how Black defends, the Jerome Gambit can present as a Bashi-Bazouk attack, sweeping all before it; or it can become a slow-and-steady game, with White advancing toward the full point with all deliberate speed - as in the following game.
What follows is a game full of excitement - with one minute per side.
Panikin_Skywalker - nyanners, casual bullet game, lichess.org, 2026
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6
(Unlike the previous Panikin_Skywalker game, I have left out a lot of the computer kvetching about move after move.)
7.Qd5+ Kf8 8.Qxc5+ d6 9.Qe3 Nf6 10.d3 Qe7
Standard Jerome Gambit themes appear: Black has a piece for two pawns, but an uneasy King, and a strongly-placed-but-attackable Queen; White places his hopes in the "Jerome pawns", supported by his own active Queen, using his Rook along the f-file that targets the enemy monarch.
11.b3
Preparing to develop his dark square Bishop without disturbing his Queen.
11...Kf7
Or 11...Qe5 as in chessriddler - Okierete01m lichess.org, 2023 (1-0, 22); or 11...Bd7 12.O-O Re8 as in chessriddler - Let_It_Rip, lichess.org, 2025 (0-1, 42)
12.O-O
Instead, chessriddler - meisam1993, lichess.org, 2023 (1-0, 41) saw 12.h3 Re8 13.O-O etc.
12...Re8
Or 12...Rf8 as in chessriddler - CarlsenNepo21, lichess.org, 2024 (0-1, 61). That's a lot of moves in one minute.
13.Bb2 Kg8
White has his plan. Does Black?
14.Nd2 Ne5
I see this often in defenses to the Jerome Gambit. It mostly serves as a target for White to play f2-f4.
15.h3 Qf7 16.f4 Nc6 17.Nf3 Qg6
At this point, Stockfish 16.1 optimistically assessed the position as about even.
18.Qf2 Qh6 19.f5 Ne5
This Knight has gone from b8 to c6 to e5 to g6 to e5 to c6 to e5!
20.Nxe5
And now, off of the board.
20...dxe5 21.Rae1 Bd7
22.Qg3 Nh5 23.Qh2 Nf4 24.g4
The kind of aggression that sometimes works in bullet, sometimes not.
24...Qxh3 25.Bxe5 Qxh2+ 26.Kxh2
[to be continued]
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