Thursday, November 10, 2016

Jerome Gambit Ascendant

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1. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen has revealed that if his upcoming match with Sergey Karjakin goes to rapid tie-break games, he will consider playing the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7!?).

 2. President Trump
Up until November 8, 2016, I would have expected #1 to be more likely.

 Now it looks like the United States is going to get a whole lot of #2.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 18, 2016 at 12:01 AM

    Today was Carlsen-Karjakin, game 5. After seeing 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 was played, I begged for 4. Bxf7 to be played, of course! (Now that Donald Trump is President, anything can happen!) Magnus made a decision that almost proved to be disastrous by playing 4. 0-0 though, and, later in the game, Karjakin got the biggest advantage he's had in any of the World Championship games so far, and should have won it. After an inexact follow-up by Karjakin though, Magnus escaped with a draw but hopefully he will learn from this and venture 4. Bxf7 next time.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM

    Now Carlsen is one point down in the world championship and desperate to win so hopefully we'll see him venture the Jerome gambit!

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