Re-Inventing the Flat Tire

Just like some people discover or invent the Jerome Gambit on their own, apart from the efforts of Alonzo Wheeler Jerome and the Jerome Gambit Gemeinde, so do those players continue to play a tricky but suicidal line, even after the "Death of a Variation".

SOLKIE - fianchettoking
blitz, FICS, 2010

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Ng5+

Outrageous, even by Jerome Gambit standards. On the surface, White hopes to exchange his Knight for Black's Bishop at c5 – but the game quickly becomes too chaotic for that.

5...Qxg5

White resigned here in lilpuppy - korppi, blitz, FICS, 2010

6.d4

6.Qf3+ Qf6 White resigned, fadelio - andreialex, blitz, FICS, 2010

6...Qxg2 7.Qh5+ g6 White resigned