Today marks the 1 year "birthday" of this daily-posted blog. Thanks for stopping by!Many people have provided information on the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) and other openings for both jeromegambit.blogspot.com and my (unreleased) article on the history of the Jerome Gambit.
I want to express my heartfelt thanks to each of those who have helped, starting with the Jerome Gambit Gemeinde, of course, but including: Jude Acers, Deanna Austin, Kent Ball, Pete Banks, Teni Bedrosian, Martin Bennedik, Eric Bentzen, John Blackstone, Harold Bohn, Neil Brennen, Paul Broekhuyse, Stefan Bücker, J. Gayle Camarda, Franklin Campbell, Geoff Chandler, Adailton Chiaradia, Sarah Cohen, Coxsackie Historic Preservation Commision, Kristina Daily, Dan DeHann, Todor Dimitrov, Steven Dowd, Paul Dunn, Bob Durrett, Erik at Chess.com, Wayne Everard, Andrew Fabbro, Malcolm Farley, Steve Farmer, Ward Farnsworth, Micah Fisher-Kirshner, Sam Fore, Richard Forster, Ken Fraser, Steve Frymer, Kapil Gain, Gary Gifford, Scott Givens, Michael Goeller, Green County Historical Society, A.B. Hailey, Tim Harding, Keith Hayward, Jyrki Heikkinen, Dan Heisman, Adam Henderson, John Hilbert, Owin Hindle, James F. Holwell, Colin James III, Thomas Johansson, Fyhn Karsten, Ara L. Kaye, Paul Keiser, Libby Ford Kennedy, Rick Kinkaid, Tom Klem, Korch of Korch's Corner, Michael Kramer, Ty Kroll, Robert Kruszynski, Rosemary Kurtz, Gary Lane, Heather Lang, Stan Larsen, George Laven, Peter Lupu, Jeff Martin and the staff of the John G. White Collection at the Cleveland Public Library, Missi Matt, Tim McGrew, Hindemburg Melao, Anna Maria Mihalega, Martin Moller, Dennis Monokroussos, Louis Morin, Mark Morss, Robert Murnan and the staff at the Cleveland Research Center, Clyde Nakamura, Christopher Nelson, Anne Newman, Russ Newman, Jan Newton, Reg Nonni, Ryan North, William Paulsen, James Pratt, Tyrin Price, Tom Purser, Francesco Recchia, Marianne Reynolds, Peter Reuter, N. Earl Roberts, Magnus Rosenstielke, Tim Sawyer, Eric Schiller, Rainer Schlenker, Anne Sebba, Daaim Shabazz, Jeremy Spinrad, Peter Stockhausen, Susan Strahan, Jason Stratman, David Surratt, Joseph Tanti, Pat Tavenner, Anders Thulin, Randy Tipton, Toby and Traci at TobyChess, Attila Turzo, Cindy Ulrich, Olimpiu Urcan, Bill Vallicella, Jaap van der Kooij, Jeroen van Dorp, Vedder Memorial Library staff, Lissa Waite, Andrew Walker, Art Wang, Bill Wall, Brian Wall, Ken Whyld, Edward Winter, Peter Wong, Ed Yetman, Jack Young, Bradley Zang and Lev Zilbermints.
As a "birthday present" to all who are interested, I have put together a PGN database of over 1,100 games: mostly Jerome Gambits or Jerome-ish Gambits, with occasional forays into other unorthodox opening areas, as they have been touched upon on in the first year of this blog.
I also have .pdf files for the Unorthodox Openings Newletter issues #17, #18 and #21 for the articles "Jerome Gambit, or Jerome Gamble?" by Rick Kennedy & G. K. Gifford; "Jerome Gambit – Revisited," by Rick Kennedy; and "Nobody Expects the Jerome Gambit!" by Rick Kennedy; respectively.
Finally, it is possible to provide the first year of this blog as one file that can be viewed with a web browser, off-line – all of the fun, none of the bandwidth.
They are yours for the asking, with my thanks for stopping by to celebrate.
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