Showing posts with label Ranken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ranken. Show all posts
Friday, December 22, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Balderdash

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Not everything that I have discovered in my recent forays into historical research has been of enduring value. For example, the "CH...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Merely Commentators, or Players?

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One of the reasons I started a discussion at the English Chess Forum searching out early English game examples of the Jerome Gambit was be...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Hey! Wait! Oh, Never Mind...

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I've probably spent way too much time fussing about a comment by Fat Lady at redhotpawn.com , referring to a chess game where...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A Bridge To... Somewhere?

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Yesterday's game, Byrne [Bryne] - Farwell, San Francisco, 1859 , serves as a curious bridge between two pieces of Jerome Gambit ( 1....
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Some History of the Jerome Gambit (Part 3)

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A bit more history, following yesterday and the day before ... After his March and July 1874 articles in the Dubuque Chess Journal , Alon...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

An Intriguing Letter (Part 2)

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This is the first of two games, mentioned yesterday in " An Intriguing Letter (Part 1) " from Филидор1792 . It features a typical...
Monday, January 9, 2012

An Intriguing Letter (Part 1)

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I recently received an email from chessfriend  Филидор1792 ("Philidor 1792") that got me thinking about a whole lot of things in t...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

The People's Chess Opening

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For every player that I encounter who plays the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) because he or she has seen it in a che...
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...
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...
Monday, September 15, 2008

The Jerome Gambit Gemeinde (early)

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Followers of Emil J. Diemer and the Blackmar Diemer Gambit ( 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 ) composed a community they referred to as the Bla...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Godfather of the Jerome Gambit? (Part I)

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It is not (yet) clear from what Alonzo Wheeler Jerome received his inspiration to create the Jerome Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bx...