Showing posts with label Blackmar Diemer Gambit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackmar Diemer Gambit. Show all posts
Friday, January 17, 2020

Modern Guide to Gambits

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Wow! Nikolai Kalinichenko,  a correspondence grandmaster, has written  The Club Player's Modern Guide To Gambits: Fighting Chess fr...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

A Nice Jerome Gambit

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I just noticed that chessfriend Guido de Bouver  of  Flanders, Belgium,  has a post on his Blackmar Diemer Gambit website ( 1.d4 d5 2....
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Refuted

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As much as I enjoy the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) , I have acknowledged from the beginning (see "But - Is ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The Most Disrespected Opening In Chess

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I was wandering through the internet the othe day, and realized that I had missed sharing this humorous comment from  Tom's BDG Pages...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Post Script

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Spend any time at a book store looking at its selection of chess titles and you will probably run into at least one book offering  Play ...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

A Return to Pre-School

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I think if the bodacious Blackmar Diemer Gambit ( 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxd4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 ) can be referred to as a "high school for tactic...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Further Explorations (Part 1)

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Not quite a  year ago, Rev. Tim Sawyer began his chess blog , initally focusing on the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit ( 1.d4 d5 2.e4!? ), but quic...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

An Early Christmas Present

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I was thumbing through the awesome-looking and greatly-titled  1.d4 – Beat the Guerrillas! A Powerful Repertoire Against Annoying Black Side...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Book Review: Blackmar Diemer Gambit, Method of Operating (Part 2)

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Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Method of Operating by Eric Jégo TheBookEdition (2011) ISBN: 978-2-9536013-1-2 softcover, 164 pages figurine a...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Book Review: Blackmar Diemer Gambit, Method of Operating (Part 1)

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Eric Jégo has come out with a second, English-language edition of his Blackmar Diemer Gambit, Method of Operating, Accepted - Declined - Avo...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Or is it??

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Longtime blog Readers may know that I used to do a lot of writing for the now very, very quiet  Chessville site: lots of short fiction, l...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Instead of the Sunday Book Review

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Four days ago (see " GM Larry Evans and the Jerome Gambit "), Guido de Bouver, author of a rowdy, rollicking and bodacious book on...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Quite Complicated

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Making sense of Jerome Gambit middlegames can be a challenge. To write the notes for this blog I make use of my friends Rybka 3, Fritz 10 an...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Blackmar Diemer Gambit

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I received a very pleasant email from Guido de Bouver of Grimbergen, Belgium, the other day, Hello Richard, I have been following your ...