I would LOVE to see those blitz games!
(.pgn or .cbv to richardfkennedy@hotmail.com, please)
Here's a 2 12 game I played on ICC last year. It's not fancy, but it was a lot of fun!
perrypawnpusher - WHITE-KING
ICC 2 12 Internet Chess Club, 14.06.2004
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+
Kxf7 5.Nxe5+
Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ng6 7.Qxc5 N8e7 8.0-0 Rf8 9.f4 Nc6 10.Qd5+ Ke8 11.d3 Nge7 12.Qg5 Rf7 13.Nc3 h6 14.Qh5 Kf8 15.f5 Ne5 16.d4 N5c6 17.d5 Ne5 18.f6 Rxf619.Rxf6+ gxf6 20.Qxh6+ Kf7 21.Qh7+ Kf8 22.Bh6+ Ke8 23.Qh8+ Kf724.Qg7+ Ke8 25.Qf8#
The Jerome Gambit should inspire confidence in the second player: "I can beat this junk!" he should say. Instead, the opposite sometimes happens:
guest289 - guest5120 [C50]
ICC 2 12 u Internet Chess Club, 05.09.2004
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 6.Qh5+ Black resigns 1-0
(White in this game, Louis Morin, has played dozens of online blitz Jerome Gambits, but none of them with such "shock and awe" as a response!)
In the next game (casual, 5 minutes) Geoff Chandler uncorks the Jerome, his opponent whips out Blackburne's "refutation" (Blackburne - NN, London, 1885 -- often given as "around 1880" as in Mr. Blackburne's Games of Chess) -- and Chandler points out that "it ain't necessisarily so."
Chandler,G - Dimitrov,T
5 minute special game, 2004
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qxe5 d6 8.Qxh8 Qh4 9.0-0 Nf6 10.Qd8 Bh3 11.Qxc7+ Kg8 12.Qxb7 Qg4 13.Qb3+ and White won 1-0
Here is Mexican Champion Andres Clemente Vazquez trotting out the Jerome -- giving the odds of Queen's Rook!!
Vazquez,A - Giraudy,M
11.1876
[Remove White's QR]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ Ke6 7.Qf5+ Kd6 8.d4 Bxd4 9.c3 Bb6 10.f4 Qf6 11.fxe5+ Qxe5 12.Bf4 Qxf4 13.Qxf4+ Ke7 14.Rf1 Nh6 15.Qe5+ Kd8 16.Qxg7 Re8 17.Qg5+ Re7 18.Rf8# 1-0
Finally, for those of you who think I'm prejudiced in favor of the Jerome Gambit -- of course I am! I like many things that are not good for me. But here's the opening's creator running into an early refutation -- somehow, Alonzo Wheeler Jerome never remembered to mention Black's line in any of his future writings; but perhaps it explain's his preference, later on, for 6.d4 instead of 6.Qh5+
Jerome,A - Norton,D
correspondence, 06.1876
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qxe5 Qe7 8.Qxh8 Qxe4+ 9.Kf1 Nf6 10.d3 Qf5 11.f3 Bf8 12.Nc3 d5 13.h4 Qd7 14.h5 Bg7 15.hxg6+ Kxg6 16.Rh6+ Bxh6 17.Bxh6 b6 18.Ne2 f7 9.Qf8 Qxf8 20.Bxf8 and the result was a draw ½-½
Rick