Showing posts with label DragonTail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DragonTail. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Jerome Gambit: The Face Palm Variation

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I need to spend a moment or two on a Jerome Gambit variation that has been bothering me for almost 20 years. (See " Another Way to Sa...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

The Database Upgrade

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I recently upgraded The Database with games from the online playing site  FICS through August, 2018, bumping the number of games it contain...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

It's Complicated

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Bill Wall scores over 95% with the Jerome Gambit, which is fantastic given that the opening has several "refutations." He keeps tr...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Who Plays The Jerome Gambit?

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Who plays the Jerome Gambit? About four years ago, in " King of the Hill ", I searched through The Database to find the na...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Finesse

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Jerome Gambit and Jerome-like games are not usually though of as finesse-filled duels, but in the following game, in seeing to apply a re...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Good to the End

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The Jerome Gambit is a strange opening. White gets what he wants by giving Black a winning game. Black often fights to reach an even gam...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Entertaining, Maddeningly Short Video

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For an entertaining, maddeningly short video (with tense background music) on a sprightly Blackburn Shilling Jerome Gambit Game, here&#...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

A Level of Strangeness

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The following game has a surprise move in a less-than-usual line, and when I researched it in earlier posts, I found a number of editoria...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

A Jerome Look At The Semi-Italian Opening (Part 3)

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In taking my "A Jerome Look At The Semi-Italian Opening" I realized that the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc3 h6 4.d4 exd4 5.Bxf7+  ...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Evolution of "The Database"

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It is fun to look back and see that in the early days of this Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) blog, I bragged of havi...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Mysteries of the Jerome Pawns

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I wish that I had won the following game because I solved the "mysteries" of the "Jerome pawns" discussed after move 20....