Jerome Gambit: Fast

Bullet chess is fast. Players think and move fast. They make strong moves and weak moves, fast.

A blog post can slow it all down - but it is still fast.

In the following game, angelcamina leads the way.

angelcamina - RABCHES

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2026

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bc5 5.Bxf7+

The Italian Four Knights Jerome Gambit.

angelcamina has 328 such games in The Database, scoring 60% .

5...Kxf7 6.Nxe5+ Nxe5 7.d4 Bxd4 8.Qxd4 Nc6 

9.Qc4+ Kf8 10.O-O d6 11.f4 Bg4 

An interesting idea. 

Also

11...Qe7 12.e5 (12.b3 Be6 13.Qd3 (13.Qe2 g6 14.Ba3 Kg7 15.e5 Ne8 16.exd6 Nxd6 17.Rae1 Rae8 18.Qd2 Rhf8 19.g3 Kg8 20.Ne4 Nxe4 21.Bxe7 Nxd2 22.Bxf8 Nxf1 23.Ba3 Nd2 24.Re2 Nf3+ 25.Kg2 Nfd4 26.Rd2 Bf5 27.c4 Re2+ 28.Rxe2 Nxe2 29.Kf3 Ned4+ 30.Ke3 Kf7 31.b4 Nc2+ 0-1 angelcamina - easy_chessmaster78, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2021) 13...Bf7 (13...Kf7 14.Ba3 Rhf8 15.e5 Nd5 16.Nxd5 Bxd5 17.Qxd5+ Qe6 18.Qf3 Kg8 19.Rae1 Nd4 20.Qd3 Qd5 21.c4 Qa5 22.exd6 Qxa3 23.Qxd4 cxd6 24.Qd5+ Kh8 25.Re2 Rad8 26.Rfe1 Qc5+ 27.Qxc5 dxc5 28.Kf2 Kg8 29.g3 White won on time, angelcamina - Ecuakandy, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024; 13...Nb4 14.Qb5 Nc6 15.Qxb7 Kf7 16.Qxc6 Bd7 17.Qc4+ Be6 18.Qd3 Ng4 19.h3 Nh6 20.Ba3 Bd7 21.e5 dxe5 22.Bxe7 Kxe7 23.fxe5 Rad8 24.Nd5+ Ke6 25.c4 c6 26.Nc7+ Kxe5 27.Rae1 checkmate, angelcamina - bergkas, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2024) 14.Ba3 g6 15.Rae1 Kg7 16.e5 Nd7 17.exd6 Qd8 18.f5 gxf5 19.Qxf5 Nf6 20.dxc7 Qd4+ 21.Kh1 Bg6 22.Qf3 Qxc3 23.Qxc3 Black resigned, angelcamina - Thealbatros, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2021) 12...d5 (12...dxe5 13.fxe5 Nxe5 (13...Qxe5 14.Bf4 Qh5 15.Rae1 Bf5 16.Nd5 Ng4 17.h3 g5 18.Bg3 Na5 19.Rxf5+ Kg7 20.Qxc7+ Kh6 21.hxg4 Qxg4 22.Re6+ Kh5 23.Qf7, checkmate, angelcamina - Aleyev-Iliya5953, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2026) 14.Qb3 Nc6 15.Bg5 Qc5+ 16.Kh1 Qxg5 17.Ne4 Qe5 18.Nxf6 gxf6 19.Rae1 Qd6 20.Rd1 Qe6 21.Qa3+ Qe7 22.Qc3 Be6 23.Rxf6+ Ke8 24.Re1 Nd8 25.h4 c6 26.h5 Kd7 27.Qe5 Qd6 28.Qg5 Kc7 29.Qg7+ Qd7 30.Qxh8 b6 31.Rf8 Kb7 32.Re8 Qxe8 33.Qxe8 Bd7 0-1 angelcamina - MucTepXyeBlbU, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org,  2025) 13.exf6 gxf6 14.Nxd5 Be6 15.Re1 Qd6 16.Rd1 Rd8 0-1 angelcamina - ajithm, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2019; and

11...Be6? 12.Qxe6 Qe7 13.Qxe7+ Kxe7 14.b3 Nd7 15.Ba3 Nb6 16.Rae1 Kd7 17.Rd1 Kc8 18.e5 dxe5 19.fxe5 Nxe5 20.Nd5 Nxd5 21.Rxd5 Nc6 22.Rf7 Rg8 23.Rdd7 Ne5 24.Rxc7+ Kd8 25.Rxg7 Rxg7 26.Rxg7 1-0 angelcamina - Krle002, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2025. 

12.h3 

Or 12.b3 Bh5 13.Ba3 Bf7 14.Qe2 Qe7 15.Rae1 Ke8 16.e5 dxe5 17.Bxe7 Nxe7 18.Qxe5 Rd8 19.Qxe7 checkmate, angelcamina - azdnlh3, 1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2025 

12...Bh5 13.b3 Bf7 14.Qd3 Qe7

Stronger was 14...h5, to dissuade g2-g4, (which, again, never comes). 

15.Ba3 a6

Better 15...Bg6 to prevent e4-e5 (a move, however, that never arrives). 

16.Rae1 b5 

See the above note.

17.Nd5 

It was time for 17.e5.

17...Nxd5 

Not seeing far enough. The move was 17...Qd7. 

18.exd5 

White's piece development offsets his piece minus.

18...b4 

This has to be the clock.

19.Rxe7 Nxe7 20.Bxb4 Nxd5 21.Bc3 Rd8 22.f5 h6 23.f6 

To open another file and end the game.

Black slips, and then resigns.

23...Bg6 24.Qxg6 Black resigned