Showing posts with label Cook's Synopsis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cook's Synopsis. Show all posts
Thursday, December 13, 2018

The Jerome Gambit Article (Part 3)

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Here continues the Jerome Gambit article that I wrote for Kaissiber, a decade ago. The Cincinnati connection is an important one in the...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

The Verdun Gambit (Part 2)

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From the chess column of the Western Mail   of Perth, Australia,  Friday, November 9, 1917 (page 26) titled "THE JEROME GAMBIT" we...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Balderdash

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Not everything that I have discovered in my recent forays into historical research has been of enduring value. For example, the "CH...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Merely Commentators, or Players?

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One of the reasons I started a discussion at the English Chess Forum searching out early English game examples of the Jerome Gambit was be...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Sarratt Attack

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Of the Sarrat / Vitzthum Attack (see the recent " Another Distant Relative " as well as  " A Bridge To... Somewhere "...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

"New" Old Analysis - But Not Quite

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I recently stumbled over Part 10 of the "Index To The Chess Openings" on page 100 of the June 27, 1891 issue of the Chess Play...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Jerome Gambit: Early Opening Tomes (Part 1)

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Recently, Dr. Tim Harding wrote in his "The Kibitzer" column at ChessCafe.com , In the half century between 1862 and 1912, ches...
Friday, April 29, 2011

The Jerome-Kennedy Gambits!?

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Wow. The other day I received an email from Yury V. Bukayev , in Russia, suggesting the description "Jerome-Kennedy Gambit in differen...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Like a Needle in a Haystack (Part 1)

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Researching the history of the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) can be a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Question of Theory and Practice

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"Theory" and "practice" in the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) can be light-heartedly summed up a...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

A Jerome Discovery (Afterword)

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The chess columns from The Literary Digest (see Parts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 & 5 ) are an exciting discovery for Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 N...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Short Controversy

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I was looking through Eduard Gufeld and Nikolai Kalienchenko's Chess Strategy (Batsford, 2003) when I ran across an interesting sectio...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Flaws (Part II)

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Amateur - Blackburne London, 1885 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Nxe5 6.Qh5+ g6 "Not to be outdone in generosity,&quo...