Friday, August 28, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Super Fast



The player DutchLiLi has almost 2,500 games in The Database (scoring 58%), with time controls of 3 minutes and 1 minute.

That's super fast.


DutchLiLi - BACollin

1 0 bullet, lichess.org, 2025

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ 

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 


7.Qxe5 

Black can now go into Blackburne's defense with 7...d6, Whistler's defense with 7...Qe7, or come up with a defense of his own.

7...d6 8.Qxh8 

White can take the Rook - if he knows what he is doing.

8...Qh4 


Played by "X" against Lieut. Sorensen in Denmark in 1888. 

9.O-O 

The strongest move is 9.d4, but in a 1-minute game, will it matter?

9...Bh3 

The move certainly has shock value.

Still, it appears in 34 games in The Database, and White scores 74%.

Perhaps Black got his moves mixed up? After 9...Nf6 10.Qd8 then 10...Bh3 and one side or the other can pursue multiple checks of the enemy King.

10.d4 

White's one move for advantage is 10.Qc3.

10...Qg4 


Bullet games! Arggghhh!

Instead, Black wins with the Blackburne-like offer of a Rook, 10...Nf6.

11.Qxh7+ 

White's Queen escapes, rushes to Her King's defense, and wins the game.

11...Kf6 12.Qxh3 Qg5 

A slip, but it hardly matters.

13.dxc5 

Giving the enemy Queen a chance to escape, but, again, it hardly matters.

13...dxc5 14.Bxg5+ Black resigned




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