Today this blog reaches one thousand consecutive days of posting. We've covered a lot of ground since the first day, June 10, 2008.From the first published analysis of Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's opening, to the latest games available, we've been there.
From the pipe dreams of having an article on 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ published in the well-respected magazine Kaissiber, to the far reaches of Jerome's Double Gambit seen as a Martian invasion, it has been fun to exercise imagination to its fullest extent.
Tournaments have been chronicled, history corrected, mysteries uncovered, and loose ends tracked down.
There have been a few interviews, not nearly enough.
The opening has faced skepticism and worse, as well it should, given its many refutations.
On the other hand, IM Lane (who I sometimes erroniously granted the GM title to in my references) has mentioned the Jerome Gambit in his columns at ChessCafe.com and more recently in his book The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps.
The Database of games (available to all readers) has grown from 950 to almost 23,500.
According to Google Analytics, the number of countries that readers have visited from passed 100 quite some time ago. Almost 1/4 of readers have stopped here 100 times or more. One-sixth of readers have stopped here over 200 times.
What is ahead for this blog for the next 1,000 days?
More of your games, I hope. I share mine because I am familiar with them, but I post readers' when I get them. Your games are often better.
I hope to post more historical research, more tournaments, more analysis... and maybe even finally get down to writing a book on the Jerome Gambit. Now that would be a challenge!
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