Showing posts with label Literary Digest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary Digest. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Jerome Gambit: Return to the Literary Digest

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In mid-1900, Alonzo Wheeler Jerome convinced the chess columnist for the Literary Digest to start a Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.B...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Jerome Gambit: History Reset

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NN - Blackburne, London, 1884 The other day, I stumbled over a remark (from May 22, 2017) by  zanzibar , at the Chessgames.com website...
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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Friday, January 28, 2011

Like a Needle in a Haystack (Part 3)

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The March 1874 issue of the Dubuque Chess Journal contains a game between "Mr. S" (William A. Shinkman?) and Alonzo Wheeler Jerom...
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...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

A Jerome Discovery (Part 5)

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It seems that after the following exchange, either the chess columnist for The Literary Digest or Alonzo Wheeler Jerome himself lost intere...
Friday, May 15, 2009

A Jerome Discovery (Part 4)

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Continuing the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) analysis from the pages of The Literary Digest from over a century ago...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

A Jerome Discovery (Part 3)

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This is a continuation of the series of articles on the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) from The Literary Digest of...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

A Jerome Discovery (Part 2)

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As compared to its Composite Game, The Literary Digest's Consulation Game with its readers – see " A Jerome Discovery (Part 1) &q...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A Jerome Discovery (Part 1)

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In early 1900, the chess columnist for the weekly magazine The Literary Digest received a suggestion to play a "composite game." ...