Jerome Gambit: The Database (update)

 I frequently refer to "The Database" in posts on this blog.

First mention was in "My Jerome Gambit Database" back in June of 2008

I have over 950 Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) games in my database, allowing for transpositions.

Currently, The Database contains over 95,000 games, focused upon the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+), the Italian Four Knights Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bc5 5.Bxf7+), the Semi-Italian Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6 4.0-0/4.Nc3/4.d3 Bc5 5.Bxf7+)  and the Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 4.Bxf7+).

The core of The Database is drawn from the FICS Games Database, with all relevant games - win, loss or draw - gathered from 1999 to the present.

The idea is to make The Database similar to online club play, making statistics drawn from it to be largely representative of club play. It might be helpful to know, for example, that while a computer might evaluate a particular line as being better for Black, White has been successful in playing it, nonetheless.

In the past few years I have added a large number of games from the lichess.org website, as well as games submitted by readers of this blog (mostly wins), so the representedness of The Database is a bit skewed, but it remains a good resource to mine for Jerome Gambit play.