Showing posts with label Alonzo Jerome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alonzo Jerome. Show all posts
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Alonzo Wheeler Jerome

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This guy, Alonzo Wheeler Jerome, who is responsible for early (1874) analysis of the Jerome Gambit, who was he? Here are a few blog lin...
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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Jerome Gambit: Horrible Innovation

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One of my favorite chess writers is GM Andy Soltis. With over 100 books to his name, and almost 50 years as a chess columnist for the New Yo...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Jerome Gambit: A Norton Link

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I recently heard from the great, great, great, great grandson of Dennis Platt Norton, a chess player who, along with his son, Frank C. Norto...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Jerome Gambit: One More Mystery Game

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While I am still a bit surprised that I overlooked posting one Jerome Gambit loss from my ongoing Chess.com tournament (see the previous &q...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Garrison Duty

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Wandering the internet the other day, I came across a document purported to be a "personal war sketch" of Alonzo Wheeler Jerom...
Monday, June 29, 2015

The Great Debate

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Alonzo Wheeler Jerome  was not only the inventor of the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ), he was an ex-Civil War so...
Friday, December 5, 2014

UON #33

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The latest issue (#33) of Gary K. Gifford's ever-interesting and always-enlightening "Unorthodox Openings Newsletter" (in...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Bop!

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Playing the Jerome Gambit is a lot like giving your opponent a weapon - and then stepping in and bopping him on the nose before he figures...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Blackmar - Jerome Gambit?!

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I noticed that the "Improving Chess Player" blog, in its not-too-long-ago " Feeling Ornery - Play the Traxler " prese...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Tourney Update

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Play has been pretty fast and furious for me in the Chess.com Italian Game Thematic Tournament (see " Started "). I have dra...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Belated Happy Birthday

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Five years and one week ago , I started this blog as a tentative look at a very disreputable chess opening, the Jerome Gambit, 1.e4 e5 Nf...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Think Fast!

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If Black has enough time, he can "solve" the Jerome Gambit. Philidor1792 - guest4181 5+0 www.bereg.ru, 13.02.0028 1.e4 e5 ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Proto-Jerome Gambits? (Part 1)

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Alonzo Wheeler Jerome, as far as I have been able to determine, did not leave an indication as to what openings inspired him to develop 1...