The Nameless (Completely Unsound) Gambit

Ok, I'm just going to throw it out there: I keep facing this "opening" in 3+2 blitz. I'm completely baffled. Why?

It is some variation of the Scotch Game that doesn't appear to have a name and has 0 entries in the Lichess Master database. Who is teaching this?

Take My Knight...Please

After a normal Scotch Game, white seems to think that they are playing the "Fried Liver" but forgot to play Bc4.

Huh?

The Inverse Fried Liver

After a few chaotic games, I eventually did some analysis and ultimately turned on Stockfish. The best move is to immediately threaten the errant knight and dare white to follow through the sacrifice. Sometimes, white realizes their mistake and plays back to f3. But most of the time, they actually follow through with the sacrifice and THEN play Bc4+. Inverse Fried Liver?

Refutation 1

It turns out this variation is tricky, but white is completely losing - like, dead lost - with correct play. As Andy Soltis points out in Studying Chess Made Easy, "Every player memorizes. Grandmasters do it more than anyone else." This is no exception.

The correct move is d5! Yes, white captures, but quickly runs out of checks:

At the end of this variation, white has nothing left, and is simply down a piece. Maybe, if black didn't play these moves quickly, by memory, they will have enough time pressure to force a blunder. Maybe.

Refutation 2

What if white plays exd5? Obviously, the threat is discovered check: d6+ winning black's bishop. In this position, black has only one move that keeps the advantage: Na5!

Even after the d6+, black is still up a piece and white is on the back-foot, having to respond to Qxd7+

Final Thoughts

Incredibly, the top move in the Lichess games database after 4. Ng5?? is ... 4. ... h6???? No idea who is promoting this "opening," but it's clearly working... Even when I filtered for ratings 1800 and higher (Ultrabullet - Rapid), white has a rage-inducing 61% win rate after 5. Nxf7?!

Folks, it's time to put an end to this nonsense. Here are "interactive lessons" based on the above analysis. Let's get white's win rate in this non-opening down below 50% where it belongs.