I only learned today that the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5?! was the Rousseau Gambit. I'd heard this opening discussed numerous times within the Canberra chess scene, but for some reason I thought it was a different opening, and the moves above were just sort of dodgy Italian/Latvian hybrid (The Italvian Opening?). I'd even played it in the past at fast time limits, albeit with little success.
Despite it's poor reputation it sometimes works out for Black. Here GM Dejan Bojkov comes undone against Pavel Dimitrov in what appears to be a brutal kingside hack.
BUL-chT-A 62nd Sunny Beach (1.3), 19.09.2012
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 f5 4. d3 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. Nc3 f4 7. Nd5 d6 8. c3 Bg4 9. b4 Bb6 10. a4 a5 11. Nxb6 cxb6 12. Ba3 h5 13. bxa5 Rxa5 14. Qb3 Bxf3 15. gxf3 Rh6 16. Kh1 Ng4 17. Bf7+ Kd7 18. fxg4 hxg4 19. f3 g3 20. Ra2 Qh8 21. Kg1 Nd8 22. Rff2 gxf2+ 23. Rxf2 Nxf7 24. Qxf7+ Kc8 25. Rg2 Rf6 26. Qb3 Ra6 27. Bb4 Qe8 28. Rxg7 Rg6+ 29. Rxg6 Qxg6+ 30. Kh1 Kb8 31. Qd5 Ka7 32. Qxd6 Qh5 33. a5 Qxf3+ 34. Kg1 Qe3+ 0-1
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