Jerome Gambit: Where Do I Begin?

Okay, so you have some interest in the Jerome Gambit opening, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+, and you stumble upon this blog and decide to read some posts - for analysis, for games, for history.

Where do you begin?

You could look at the "Blog Archive" listing on the right hand side of the page, start with the first post from June 10, 2008, and read the next 4,737 posts... Spend a minute for each post, and it will take you over 3 days (and nights) if you read continuously.

Okay, that's a bit too much to start.

You could use the "Search This Blog" feature, which is remarkably effective - if you know what (or who) you are looking for.

If you don't know it, what can you do?  

Fortunately, long-time chessfriend and regular provider of interesting content to this blog, Yury V. Bukayev, has come to your rescue.

This should get you started!

The Partial Index of the Jerome Gambit (JG) Blog 

(Version 1)

  

1.Something more about the blogger:

'From My Psychology Career to This Blog & Wiki's Attention': https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2022/12/years-ago-i-wrote-over-100-reviews-for.html 

 

2.The information on how enormous is this blog:

 

https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2025/04/jerome-gambit-slow-advance.html (the end of this post)

 

3.The longest series of posts, its latest part:

'JG: The New in Its Opening Theory, in Its Psychology', Part 17, its subparts: https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2023/12/jg-new-in-its-opening-theory-in-its_9.html and https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2023/12/jg-new-in-its-opening-theory-in-its_0175899230.html ;

 'Another Jerome Gambit Practice Tournament', Part 11: https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2024/03/another-jerome-gambit-practice_01009773905.html ;

'Anatoly Karpov & Jerome Gambit', Part 9: https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2024/08/anatol-y-karpov-jerome-gambit-part-9-by.html 

 

4.The information on JG's most frequent players:

 

https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2023/03/who-plays-jerome-gambit-often.html

 

5.The longest game with JG:

 

https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-database-long-and-short-of-it-part-1.html

 

6.The shortest checkmate with JG:

 

https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2021/12/karpov.html 

 

7.The series of posts on Top Grandmaster's recommendation to play JG and have large successes with it, its latest part:

 

https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2025/03/h.html

 

8.The series of posts on games where someone got or could get an advantage with JG against grandmasters etc., its latest part:

 

https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-to-get-advantage-or-to-win-with-jg_15.html