Saturday, July 5, 2008

Jerome Gambit Tournaments

As mentioned in the earlier "But – Is this stuff playable?? (Part II)" there are currently three Jerome Gambit thematic tournaments happening at ChessWorld, with a fourth one recently having been completed.

ChessWorld members and regular visitors may have forgotten that there was an even earlier Jerome tournament at the site. Here is the crosstable:





If you look closely, you'll see that the points scored don't quite add up. Of course not – this is a Jerome Gambit tournament: two of the games are double forfeits!

Here is one of the more interesting games:

jelgava - breaker
www.ChessWorld.net Tournament 2005

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.d4 Bb4+ 7.c3 Bxc3+ 8.Nxc3 c6 9.dxe5 h6 10.Qf3+ Ke8 11.0-0 d6 12.Rd1 Qe7 13.exd6 Qe6 14.Qg3 g5 15.e5 1-0

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