Monday, April 19, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Hardly Worth the Search

 


A few months ago I made reference - see "Jerome Gambit: Uneven (Part 1)" - to a Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) game that I had played, perrypawnpusher - Papst, 10 0 blitz, FICS, 2017 (1-0, 61). 

I was surprised that I could not find the game posted on this blog, especially since it was a win for me.

I looked the game up in The Database, and all was revealed.

Black, to play, lost on time in the following position:


Not one of my finer moments.

How does that old saying go? Good luck is better than a license to steal. In this case, one point.


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