Showing posts with label Bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bird. Show all posts
Monday, July 6, 2020

Jerome Gambit: A New Game In An Old Line

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Sometimes the best way to understand a recent game is to reflect upon past games with the same line of play. The following game is a good il...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Jerome Gambit: Time Bomb (Part 1)

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Some thoughts, previously posted I have long subscribed to the "time bomb" notion in club chess: that players are apt to ...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Jerome Gambit: Chaos in a Two Knights (Part 1)

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The May, 20, 1899 issue of The Daily Telegraph , of Sydney, New South Wales, carried what it called " A  lively game from the recent...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Jerome Gambit: Unreality is Real

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Responding quickly to my question concerning the suspect Jerome Gambit game Amateur - Neumann, London, 1880 - almost identical to Amateur -...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

A Propos the Blackburne Shilling Gambit

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The opening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4!? has been named the Blackburne Shilling Gambit , even though examples of Joseph Henry Blackburn...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Jerome Gambit vs Two Knights Defense (Part 2)

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Readers of this blog may remember that in the 2009 ChessWorld Jerome Gambit Thematic Tournament, GladToMateYou played 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3....
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Shillings: One Found, Two Lost (Part 1)

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Sometime back I contacted Edward Winter, of "Chess Notes" and Chess History fame, with some questions about the origin and namin...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Jerome Gambit is for the Bird[s]

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In his Modern Chess and Chess Masterpieces (1887), Henry Bird addresses his defense to the Ruy Lopez, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 – in a ma...