A Bit More on Chiodini's Gambit

In past posts we have looked at reversed Jerome Gambits, currently referred to as the Busch-Gass Gambit (see "Worth A Second Look" Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3; as well as "Busch-Gass Gambit"); and a variation called Chiodini's Gambit.

The most recent look at the latter came in "No Fun Against the Pawns".

I wanted to share a SCID (Shane's Chess Information Database) Opening Report I recently ran across, which has games and analysis on Chiodini's. (For an older Report on the Jerome Gambit, start here.)

Opening Report

Wandering the Internet, looking for something new on the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+), I came across the "Scacchi: Enciclopedia pratica dei Gambetti" website which contained an Opening Report on the Jerome. It contained a wealth of information, including:

1. Statistics and History
1.1 Statistics Games
1.2 Oldest games
1.3 Newest games
1.4 Current popularity
1.5 Most frequent players (White)
1.6 Most frequent players (Black)
2. Ratings and Performance
2.1 Average ratings and performance
2.2 Games with highest average rating
3. Result Trends
3.1 Result lengths and frequencies
3.2 Shortest wins (White)
3.3 Shortest wins (Black)
4. Moves and Themes
4.1 Move orders reaching the report position
4.2 Moves from the report position
4.3 Positional Themes
4.4 EndgamesMaterial at the end of each game:
5. Theory Table

It was produced by using the free SCID database, which in this case contained 4,011,859 games, and showed the Jerome Gambit scoring almost 67%!

Admittedly the Jerome's "Frequency in all years" of the database was "once every 1,337,286 games."

That works out to statistics based on – how many Jerome Gambit games??

Oh, never mind...