Showing posts with label Abatwa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abatwa. Show all posts
Friday, July 6, 2018

Jerome Gambit: Refutation - Just Like That

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It is often fun to see how Black works to dispose of the Jerome Gambit - an opening that appears so bad that it can be vanquished on-th...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Half-Way Home Is Not Far Enough

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Although the attack in my most recent Jerome Gambit game was unsound, it succeeded in winning back the sacrificed piece, reaching a drawn...
Monday, July 9, 2012

The "Kick Me Maneuver"

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In looking at ionman's Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) and related games in the online FICS games database, ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Coffee Break

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It was late when this game was played, and I suspect that my opponent was in need of a cup of coffee. perrypawnpusher  - LydenChess bli...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

My worries started to multiply...

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There's nothing quite like a good mind-swarm of worries to degrade a player's chess abilities. (For me, lack of appropriate leve...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wasteland

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I did not recognize my opponent's name until after I had challenged him to this game. In two previous games I had not treated him kindl...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Second verse, same as the first...

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My first game against Abatwa (see" Pulled Up Short ") was short. I challenged him again days later: would anything be different? ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Pulled up Short

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This Blackburne Shilling Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 ) game was galloping along toward lightly-explored territory when a sudden Kni...