Showing posts with label Freeborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freeborough. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

The Best Jerome Gambit Game of the Year (Part 2)

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We continue from the previous post , considering a game that has lept to the top of the heap for Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 B...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Some History of the Jerome Gambit (Part 3)

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A bit more history, following yesterday and the day before ... After his March and July 1874 articles in the Dubuque Chess Journal , Alon...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

An Intriguing Letter (Part 2)

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This is the first of two games, mentioned yesterday in " An Intriguing Letter (Part 1) " from Филидор1792 . It features a typical...
Monday, January 9, 2012

An Intriguing Letter (Part 1)

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I recently received an email from chessfriend  Филидор1792 ("Philidor 1792") that got me thinking about a whole lot of things in t...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

The People's Chess Opening

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For every player that I encounter who plays the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) because he or she has seen it in a che...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Shillings: One Found, Two Lost (Part 1)

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Sometime back I contacted Edward Winter, of "Chess Notes" and Chess History fame, with some questions about the origin and namin...
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...
Monday, September 15, 2008

The Jerome Gambit Gemeinde (early)

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Followers of Emil J. Diemer and the Blackmar Diemer Gambit ( 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 ) composed a community they referred to as the Bla...