Reversed Jerome Gambit (Part 2)

 

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The previous post looked at the Busch-Gass Gambit as a reversed Jerome Gambit.  The focus was on 3.Nxe5, which raised, for me, the questions

This is all well and good, but what about 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Bc4 Bxf2!?+ or 3.Nc3 Bxf2+?

Very well. 

The earliest game in The Database with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Bc4 Bxf2!? features a player at redhotpawn.com who I have referred to, earlier, as "the King of Bxf7+" because of his use of that Bishop sacrifice in many openings, including, but certainly not limited to, double e-pawn lines. 

Dick Tracy - viejoasquerosos

RedHotPawn.com, 2006

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Bc4 Bxf2+ 4.Kxf2 d6 5.c3 c6 6.d4 Nf6 7.Bg5 Nxe4+ 8.Ke3 Nxg5 9.Nxg5 Qxg5+ 10.Kf2 exd4 11.Re1+ Kd8 12.Kg1 d5 13.Qxd4 Bh3 14.g3 Nd7 15.Bd3 Kc7 16.a4 h5 17.Na3 h4 18.Qf4+ Qxf4 19.gxf4 f5 20.Re7 g5 21.Rf7 Rhf8 22.Rxf8 Rxf8 23.Re1 gxf4 24.b4 Rg8+ 25.Kh1 Bg2+ 0-1

The earliest 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nc3 Bxf2+ game in The Database is

Vega3 - Kronos 

HCL-B1474, PlayChess.de, 2002

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nc3 Bxf2+ 4.Kxf2 c6 5.Nxe5 Qf6+ 6.Qf3 Qxe5 7.d3 Qc5+ 8.Be3 Qe7 9.Ke2 Nf6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 d6 12.h3 Qe5 13.g4 g5 14.Bg3 Qe6 15.Kd2 Nbd7 16.Bg2 b5 17.a3 Bb7 18.Rhe1 O-O-O 19.Re2 h5 20.e5 dxe5 21.Qf5 Rde8 22.Rae1 hxg4 23.Qxe6 Rxe6 24.hxg4 Nxg4 25.Be4 Rf6 26.Bg2 Re6 27.Ne4 f6 28.Bf3 Nh6 29.b4 Nf5 30.Bg4 Nxg3 31.Nxg3 Rd6 32.Ne4 Rd4 33.Bxd7+ Kxd7 34.Nxf6+ Ke6 35.Ne4 Rg8 36.Nc5+ Kd5 37.Rxe5+ Kd6 38.Nxb7+ Kc7 39.Nc5 Rg4 40.Re7+ Kb6 1-0

There certainly must be earlier examples of reversed Jerome Gambits - and I will continue to search - but I have not yet found them.

(Of course, I then checked lichess.org. The site had 1.5 million games with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Bc4 Bxf2+. It had "only" 604,000 games with 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nc3 Bxf2+. Where to begin, where to begin...?)