Jerome Gambit: Chessgames.com Opening of the Day

If you visit the Chessgames.com website today, you will see that the Opening of the Day is the Kentucky Opening - otherwise known as the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+).

This is a fair acknowledgement, as it was 150 years ago that Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's games and analysis began appearing, starting with the Dubuque Chess Journal.

The site has only 10 Jerome Gambit games, but they do include 4 by Jerome, himself, as well as the early Amateur - Blackburne game, Hikaru Nakamura's game, and blog contributor Yury V. Bukayev's game.

Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale 1. A Jerome vs W Shinkman 0-1 21 1874 corr 2. A Jerome vs O A Brownson     ½-½ 29 1875 corr 3. A Jerome vs NN 1-0 20 1876 Casual game 4. A Jerome vs W H Colburn   0-1 34 1879 corr 5. NN vs Blackburne 0-1 14 1884 Casual game 6. E Sidran vs Ron Thompson 0-1 16 1992 CIS Casual email 7. L White vs NN 1-0 32 2003 Internet Section 15-A 8. L Nelson vs Z Sugar 1-0 20 2006 Queens-ch 9. Nakamura vs D Kollars 1-0 28 2020 Online 3 0 blitz 10. Yury Bukayev vs Valery Golshev 1-0 24 2021 Online 30 0 rapid