Showing posts with label Lasker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lasker. Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2020

Jerome Gambit: Eminently Unsound

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Recently, a little bit of online research took me to the pages of The Daily Colonist , of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and, in partic...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Jerome Gambit: Down the Rabbit Hole, Again (Part 1)

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I admit that after assembling the latest blog post concerning some chess history (see " Jerome Gambit: History Reset ") I tumble...
Monday, October 7, 2019

A GM Faces the Jerome Gambit (Part 1)

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How many players of grandmaster strength have faced the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ )? I can think of Joseph ...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Jerome Gambit: Time Bomb (Part 1)

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Some thoughts, previously posted I have long subscribed to the "time bomb" notion in club chess: that players are apt to ...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Jerome Gambit: Worst vs Best (Part 4)

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So far: no confirmation of a Steinitz loss to the Jerome Gambit; very likely a win by Lasker against the Jerome, but the game is un...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Jerome Gambit: Worst vs Best (Part 3)

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As mentioned in the previous post, the line 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nxe4 5.Bxf7+ (5.0-0 would be the Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Your Opponent is Overrated

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For my birthday my wife gave me James Schuyler's Your Opponent is Overrated (Everyman Chess, 2016). I appreciate the subtitle: A Practi...
Monday, July 11, 2011

On the Road Again

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" Kennedy Kid " Jon is on the road again, home from Haiti briefly, now off to Guatemala for a month to improve his Spanish langua...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Don't get me started...

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About five years ago, someone in the rec.games.chess.misc newsgroup asked about the chess player Isidor Gunsberg, noting chessmetrics.com, s...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Goddess Chess

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Readers who have not yet visited the Goddess Chess site (or the blogger's Chessville site, as well; see: "Les Femmes des Echecs....
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