Jerome Gambit: Including Unknown Region

Please Note: I have recently received so many interesting Jerome Gambit games, many from those who have tried it for the first time, that I will begin posting on this blog daily, rather than every-other-day, so I can share more, more frequently. -Rick 

It has been a while since I have looked at the statistics that blogger.com collects about this blog about the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+). 

On May 23, 2020, it listed the top 10 audiences for the last month, in order, as

United States

Hong Kong

Turkmenistan

Romania

United Kingdom

Unknown Region

Germany

Canada

France

Russia

There were a few surprises in that list. For starters, I am not sure if everyone in 6th place all come from a particular region that is, for some reason, "unknown" - or if there was a measurable amount of error in reporting home countries, and these individuals were all scooped up and placed in "unknown"; perhaps they were using VPNs or blocking their location.

In any event: Welcome, Readers!

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For the lifetime of the Jerome Gambit blog, the audience looks like this

United States
Russia
Germany
France
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Poland
Brazil
Canada
Japan 

Again: Welcome Readers!

A World-Wide Phenomenon

The folks at Blogger.com who host this blog have installed a nifty "Stats" feature that provides me with useful data, such as which pages have been seen how often, for the day, week, month, or the whole life of the blog.

The list of the top pageviews by country, for "all time", for instance, is quite interesting. Number 1 is the United States which is not too surprising. It is followed by the United Kingdom and Canada.

After that, Number 4 is France and Number 5 is Russia. Number 6, is Brazil. There follow Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea and Italy.

This list varies somewhat from the data that I get from Google Analytics, my regular stat provider, which gives the following list:

1. United States
2. Brazil
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada 
5. Denmark
6. France
7. Germany
8. Poland
9. Italy
10. Belgium

25. Russia

59. South Korea

Whichever source is "right", it is clear that interest in the Jerome Gambit is a world-wide phenomonon!

Chess Publisher

I have been using the Chess Publisher software to present games in a play-through-each-move format at the end of my posts at jeromegambit.blogspot.com at Blogger.

Today, "This Account Has Been Suspended" messages have been appearing on my blog (and likely on other sites that use Chess Publisher) in place of the chess boards and moves. This seems to be an issue between Chess Publisher staff and their website host.

The problem has nothing to do with this website and our host, Blogger. It is hoped that things will return to normal for Chess Publisher in a day or two.

If not, I will seek out other software to present games. -- Rick