* Poof! *

Remember the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) Thematic Tournament that I mentioned a few posts ago (see "Busy!") – the one that I had joined, a 10-player double-round robin?

Turns out almost nobody was interested in playing the Jerome Gambit – only 3 games out of 81 went that way. My hat off to leif41no and Namecheck for playing a couple of Jerome-ish games with each other (actually, the games started 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+). I will let you know how they do.

In the meantime, I have one Jerome against jamtaylo. Since I don't plan on contesting the non-Jerome Gambit games, and will lose them by forfeit, that raises an interesting question: am I being unfair to jamtaylo?