Showing posts with label Munoz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munoz. Show all posts
Friday, February 2, 2018

Jerome Gambit: Giving Black "A Second Chance"

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You sit down to a game of chess, you are planing on using the Jerome Gambit - but your opponent opts to play the Two Knights Defense. What t...
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...
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...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Updating the Blackburne Defense (Part 1)

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Chess players who know about the Jerome Gambit are most familiar with the game Amateur - Blackburne, London, 1885 .  Many believe that th...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Question of Theory and Practice

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"Theory" and "practice" in the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) can be light-heartedly summed up a...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Alas, it was not meant to be...

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The March 1891 issue of The International Chess Magazine carried news of a 6-game match in Havana, Cuba between Joseph Henry Blackburne and...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Harried

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The (in)famous historical Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) game, Amateur - Blackburne, London 1885 featured a harried ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Traps and Zaps

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It's always fun to see where the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) turns up. Most recently, it was in IM Gary Lane...