Showing posts with label Bishop's Opening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bishop's Opening. Show all posts
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, July 1, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Taming the Strange Beast?

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Following up on the previous post (see " Jerome Gambit: Strange Beast "), Philidor1792 sent me four games he recently played with ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

More and More About What We Know So Little

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In the last few days I have added over 10,000 Abrahams Jerome Gambit games ( 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Bxf7+ ), which we have been discussin...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

All's Well That Ends Well

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The following game shows Philidor 1792 giving the "Jerome treatment" to the Berlin Defense of the Bishop Opening... The fina...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Alert!

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I have a Google "alert" set for "Jerome Gambit". It rarely returns anything, and when it does, it mostly gives me a l...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Bringing the Heat

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Philidor 1792 returns with a topical Semi-Italian Jerome Gambit game, in which White keeps the heat on the enemy King - until the enemy Q...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Opening Innovation Resource

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Adventurous chessplayers looking for innovations in their openings should hurry to the Bruno's Chess Opening Articles link on this ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

A Little off Topic

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I am working my way through Tim Harding's Four Gambits to Defeat the French , a book that I've been interested in for a long ti...
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...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Did he jump, or was he pushed?

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My guess is that the first chessplayer to follow 1.e4 with Bc4 (either right away, as in the Bishop's Opening, or later, as in the Ita...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Looking Deeper: The Reversed BSG

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After yesterday's discovery of a reversed Blackburne Shilling Gambit game (see " Through the Looking Glass: A Reversed BSG ")...