Funny?!

Having made a word play with Bill Wall's opponent in my last post (see "Blunder Blunders"), I still was not quite ready when I encountered the following game.





SickJoke - Hena
blitz, FICS, 2011

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

4...Kxf7 White resigned

Harrumph! I thought. What White making fun of the Jerome Gambit, thinking it was some kind of "sick joke"?? The nerve!

Luckily, I decided to look up more of his games.

SickJoke - marcpawn
blitz, FICS, 2011
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Bd3 c5 4.dxc5 White resigned


SickJoke - msmarple
blitz, FICS, 2011
1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.c4 White resigned


SickJoke - xake
blitz, FICS, 2011
1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qc3 Bb4 White resigned


SickJoke - jermels
blitz, FICS, 2011
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d6 White forfeited on time


Funny openings. Funny games. Funny guy.

Huh?

Some chess games just make you wonder...

Here is the final position from a recent FICS game starting 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Na5 4.Bxf7+. Obviously White never recovered his sacrificed piece, but in the end it did not matter.

Can any conclusion be drawn from the names of the players, CaptainAndy vs SickJoke?

 

Never giving up takes on new meaning with the above position from the game thmavz - fatoldman, FICS, 2010. It started out like a "normal" Jerome Gambit, too! 

How White restrained himself from Queening that g-pawn is beyond me...