Jerome Gambit Book (Part 7)

 

I have an update concerning an ongoing chess mystery.

As I wrote in "Jerome Gambit Book (Part 1)"

Bill Wall, whose games and comments have graced many posts on this blog, recently informed me of a book on the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) at archive.org...

The cover indicates the book is by "Chess Notes", although the first of that name that comes to mind is Edward Winter's "Chess Notes" - and I seriously doubt that this is Winter's work. I have emailed him about this, and will share his response. 

Having expanded upon the topic further - see Parts 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 - I can now report that I have received word from Mr. Winter, who says the book is not his work.

He further points out that there is a slew of e-books (146) identified as being by "Chess Notes". They can be seen at the Internet Archive,  both game collections and ECO-style tables. 

Both book formats transcend the "database dump" label, including diagrams, for example (see below), and formatting; although they still have occasional repetitions in the game introductions that are indicative of merged databases, done without the necessary culling.  

Although the books are mostly concerned with individual openings, some focus on particular maestri - Bird, Firouzja, Gukesh, Dommaraju, Maghsoodloo, Muzychuk, Svidler, Wei and Yip.

Some of the books report on tournaments - Moscow 1935, Chennai 2024, Qatar Masters 2024, US Chess Masters 2024, Djerba Chess Festival 2025, Monaco Women's FIDE Grand Prix 2025, Nikosia Women's FIDE Grand Prix, and Tata Steel 2025.

All of the books can be read on the Internet Archive website. There is a helpful search function. The books can also be downloaded (I chose the PDF format for Jerome Gambit.)

So - the Jerome Gambit book is not Edward Winter's creation, and I continue to research who the author might be.