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Many players have shared their games and analyses, and I want to express a special "thank you" to them.
The Database, containing Jerome Gambit games and those with related openings, has grown to over 27,500 games.
Looking forward: When I first started posting on this blog, I did not have any of my own examples of the Jerome Gambit to share, as it seemed too risky an opening for me to play. I finally started offering the Gambit, tentatively, and then played it more and more, as I found out that, whatever its "objective" worth, I scored over 80% in my games.
My most recent 10 games (three losses, two draws, five lucky wins) have convinced me that in our current relationship, curiously enough, the Jerome Gambit and I have traded places.
In each game, the opening (in cooperation with my opponent, of course) has offered me many opportunities for exciting, dynamic, winning play – even as I have been slowly increasing the level of strength of my opponents – and the failures have been my own, usually tactical ineptitude.
Far from the Jerome Gambit letting me down in our games, I have let it down. My goal for this coming year is to play up to its expectations, by sharpening my play to match the adventures of 4.Bxf7+.
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