Showing posts with label Philidor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philidor. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Philidor vs the Philidor

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In a final Jerome Gambit-inspired blitz game, we see Philidor 1792 taking on  the Philidor Defense. White starts out by gathering materia...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Dany Sénéchaud

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French chess player, openings explorer and author - Emil Joseph Diemer (1908-1990) : missionnaire des échecs acrobatiques -  Dany Séné...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Bxf7+ against the Philidor Defense

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The game Pete Banks ("blackburne") referred to in the last post packs a lot of interesting chess in less than a dozen moves. It ...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Comment on all these Bxf7+s

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In a comment to " Curse You, Red Baron! " Pete Banks ("blackburne") wrote Hi Rick, you seem to class anything wit...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Sunday Book Review: The Alterman Gambit Guide White Gambits

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The Alterman Gambit Guide White Gambits GM Boris Alterman Quality Chess (2010) softcover, 448 pages   http://chesslessons.wordpress.co...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Satisfaction: Still Quite Légal

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As I've mentioned in " Housekeeping... " and " Barely Legal ", there is still a chance for satisfaction when you try...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Housekeeping...

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Now that the number of posts to this blog has passed 1,000 and its age races toward three years, I know that sometimes past items will be ov...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Barely Legal

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Denied the chance for a Jerome Gambit, and facing a foe with a strategy that had been successful against me in past games, I found a way to...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Welcome to the Club!

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Going through the latest selection of Jerome Gambit and Jerome-ish games from the FICS database, I noticed that themavz had played quite a...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Philidor Defense with a Jerome Touch

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As an aside in the post " A New Opening? " which discussed an article from the September 1958 Precita Valley Chess Herald wherin ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A New Opening?

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Jerome Gambit Gemeinde member, chess opening maven and book author Bill Wall sent me a copy of the September 1958 issue of the Precita Val...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Italian Game Anti-Fried Liver Defense (Part 1)

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Jerome Gambit Gemeinde member Welton Vaz sends us a Chess.com link to an enjoyable discussion on the play of 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 h6 ...
Friday, April 10, 2009

London Calling... Ten Months of Blog

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Dear Jerome Gambit Gemeinde, It's time to note that jeromegambit.blogspot.com has had daily posts (over 300 of them) for ten months no...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Fried Jerome Attack

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Not everyone is interested in facing the Jerome Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ (see, for example " It's a good thing...