Showing posts with label Abrahams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abrahams. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

The Database: Updated

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I recently updated The Database with games from the Free Internet Chess Server, through the end of 2019. The 62,000 games therin rep...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Jerome Gambit: Worse vs Best (Part 2)

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While I tend to refer to 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ as the Jerome Gambit, the name has been attached to other move o...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Jerome Gambit: The Smallest Piece

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Gerald Abrahams wrote in The Chess Mind that the smallest piece of a chess game was not a move, but an idea . Bullet chess - in this case...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

No Way A GM Plays the Jerome Gambit! (Part 1)

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Readers of this blog have seen a lot of creative and historical coverage of the Jerome Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+,  and rel...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

LAPOC revisited

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I stopped back at the LAPOC (Learn And Play Online Chess) website that I visited earlier this year (see " LAPOC ") and noticed th...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Evans-ish Abrahams Jerome Gambit

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In the previous post (see " Jerome Gambit: Move That Knight! ") I shared a couple of outrageous ways (other than sacrificing it at...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Lewis Gambit

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I have been enjoying watching the series of "Dirty Chess Tricks" videos on YouTube , by Gunjan Jani, especially " Dirty Chess...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Yet Another Smother

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Here is a final game ending in a "smothered mate". That it was played at lightning speed makes it a bit special. Once again, Black...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Abrahams Jerome Gambit: I Don't Understand

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?!?! Continuing my puzzlement from the previous column , I present a game that is entertaining - if gruesome for White. I found it on th...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Bots on Our Side (Part 3)

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Most chess-playing computer programs have a "book" in the software that lays out opening lines for the program to play. This ...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

How Strange.

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Knowing a lot about the Jerome Gambit, Bill Wall can fight against it, when he has to. How strange: he makes it look easy with the White...