Showing posts with label Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Jerome Gambit: Worse vs Best (Part 2)

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While I tend to refer to 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ as the Jerome Gambit, the name has been attached to other move o...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

History Clouded

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In Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess  (1899), the notorious Jerome Gambit game Amateur - Blackburne was given as "played at Sim...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

The Best Jerome Gambit Game of the Year (Part 1)

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Although the year is only about half-over, the following game has lept to the top of the heap for Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4...
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...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Kentucky / Danvers Opening

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The story of "the Kentucky Opening" (see Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ), 1.e4 e5 2. Qh 5 – which Joseph Henry Blackburne ,...
Monday, August 24, 2009

The Kentucky Opening (Part 4)

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Finishing up this episode of the Kentucky Opening (see Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 ), the line 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 , which had analysis published...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Jerome Gambit Blog: Tidying Up

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Time to clean up a few things in this blog... " In The Beginning... " refers to the first appearance in print of the Jerome Gambi...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Seeing clearly, regardless...

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The game is not quite a Jerome Gambit (" 'Tis A Puzzlement ") but it does include a Bxf7+ sac followed by a marauding Queen ...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Flaws (Part I)

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A more serious look at the Amateur - Blackburne game would reveal a few "flaws," to return to the master's comments on "b...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Nobody expects the Jerome Gambit!

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Apparently Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924) did . According to Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess (1899) the British master demolished ...