Sunday, July 13, 2025

Jerome Gambit: The First to Panic Loses the Game

Ah, yes, the Google Alert on "Jerome Gambit" just turned up another short video, "Jerome Jerome Jerome", presented by ChessMakta.

Interestingly enough, although the 2-dimensional board to illustrate the moves is different, the voice-over (actually, a sing-over) is identical to that of Malcolm's  "Jerome gambit" YouTube video, mentioned in an earlier post, "Jerome Gambit: Fun".

I can certainly identify with the introduction

You know those weird days, right, when chess just ain't clicking and your mind's a haze and you just wanna play in any old way... 

The warning about the Jerome Gambit is worth repeating

The first to panic loses the game.

The video and song-over can also be found on Tik Tok (Eugene), "the first to panic loses the game".

I don't know which video came first, or even if I have found the earliest one, yet. 😖

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