The Jerome Gambit

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ...and related lines
(risky/nonrisky lines, tactics & psychology for fast, exciting play)

Friday, April 4, 2025

Jerome Gambit: He Should Have Stuck with Boring

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The following short Jerome Gambit game illustrates the idea that a proper defense - and there are many - can (and, maybe, should) be boring ...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Just In Time

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                                                           Just in time, chessriddler contributes a game that fills in a gap in current Jero...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Reader Contribution?

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  Yesterday's post was a small attempt to address April 1 - April Fool's Day. A clue was the "reader's" name, Avril Fu...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Reader Contribution

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  Reader  Avril Furst sends the following position from a recent Jerome Gambit game, showing a brutal checkmate of Black's King. Not onl...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Counter-Attack Countered by Attack

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In the following game, Bill Wall, as White, takes his time with the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ), absorbing the blo...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Jerome Gambit: You Can Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later

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In the 1970s and 1980s, the FRAM company ran television commercials for their automobile oil filter, warning "You can pay me now or pay...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Jiwooko piano

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 A Dogpile.com search on "4.Bxf7+" turned up a Korean language page on the  Jiwooko piano ,  which had a very knowledgeable descr...
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Rick Kennedy
I've been researching Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's gambit since 2001. I am always interested in receiving games and analysis: as old as 1874, when the opening first was published, or as recent as today -- casual or serious, blitz or classical time settings, human or computer (or both). Readers can reach me at richardfkennedy@hotmail.com. perrypawnpusher is the name I play under at different chess sites. My book reviews and fiction were at Chessville.com - while it lived. I have written for Chess Life, School Mates, and Chess Life for Kids. Dedicated researchers may connect my name to that of Riley Sheffield - we co-wrote The Marshall Gambit in the French and Sicilian Defenses , published by Dale Brandreth's Caissa in 1988.
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