Thursday, September 14, 2023

Jerome Gambit: Return of the Jerome-Botez Gambit



We have addressed the Jerome-Botez Gambit before.

First, the Botez Gambit

According to a "Chess Terms" post on Chess.com

The Botez Gambit is a chess meme evoked when someone playing chess accidentally blunders their queen. Despite being called a "gambit," the loss of the queen comes with no compensation and is not intentional...

The term "Botez Gambit" was created by viewers of the BotezLive channel. They came up with the meme after WFM Alexandra Botez, the channel's founder, repeatedly blundered her queen across multiple streams...

With the sisters' colossal success and viewership, the meme spilled over to other Twitch channels. Prominently featured in all major amateur online tournaments like PogChamps, the meme has taken off and become part of chess streamers' vernacular...

Even grandmasters are not immune to an occasional Botez Gambit.

Now, the Jerome-Botez Gambit 

It should come as no surprise that someone (in the AnarchyChess subReddit, of course) has identified the "Jerome-Botez Gambit": 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qf3+.

At the time of the post, I reported that The Database had one example of the Jerome-Botez Gambit.

Currently, The Database has 26 games with the JBG, with White scoring 17% - which is oddly quite impressive, if you think about it, winning after blundering your Queen on move 6.

Supporting this is the online lichess.org, which has 434 JBG games, with White scoring 15%.

Of course, before the Queen offer The Database shows that White scores 57% in games; while lichess.org shows White scoring 51%.

So, you see, it is possible to make the Jerome Gambit even more hazardout for White, but let's not, okay?

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