G.K.G.

It's fun to include Gary K. Gifford as part of the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) Gemeinde – not so much because he plays the Jerome Gambit (he doesn't) but because of his support of the opening, publishing several of my Jerome Gambit articles in the fantastic and fantastical "Unorthodox Openings Newsletter" (see "Jerome Gambit Scrapbook") – which can be found among the Yahoo Groups – and coining the nickname "The Jerome Gamble".

Players who like the Jerome Gambit are probably playing their share of unorthodox chess openings, too.

It's also a delight to stop by Chessville and visit Gary's chess comics that fill out "The Chess Player's Chronicles", as well as his tactics page there.

Like I've said: Jerome Gambit Gemeinde members are interesting people!

UON

In discussing the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) I have mentioned the Unorthodox Openings Newsletter on a number of occasions, the most recently being this blog's "birthday" post (see "Happy Birthday: Twelve months of blog...").

Any reader interested in offbeat or unusual chess openings should become familiar with the 23 issues of the free UON. Its current editor, Gary K. Gifford, is also open to reader-written articles – a good way to get your own ideas out in front of a sympathetic group, for support and feedback.

Issues #1 - #14 can be found in the "files" section of the Yahoo Group "Unorthodox Chess Openings". Issues #15 - #23 can be found in the "files" section of the Yahoo Group "Chess Unorthodox UON".

To be able to download the files, I think it is necessary to officially join the particular Yahoo Group, but that takes only a minute or so, and costs nothing.

There is an impressive number of openings covered in the Unorthodox Openings Newsletter, and some recent issues are almost books themselves – for example, #19 is 70 pages, #17 is 80 pages and #21 is 103 pages.

Happy exploring!

Real - and Un-Real

Recently I exchanged emails with someone interested in unorthodox chess openings, in particular, the Jerome Gambit, via the Unorthodox Chess Openings newsgroup at Yahoo!



To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:27:40 +0000
Subject: [UnorthodoxChessOpenings] Jerome Gambit for Dummies



Hello,
Is this book available in Europe? Thanks in advance for any information.

Regards




From:Rick Kennedy (richardfkennedy@hotmail.com)
Sent:Thu 5/28/09 6:18 AM
To: unorthodoxchessopenings@yahoogroups.com

Bonjour,

For now, Jerome Gambit for Dummies exists only in my imagination, as host of the blog jeromegambit.blogspot.com; and in the creativity of the Jerome Gambit Gemeinde - those who fearlessly play 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+.

Please stop by, feel free to chuckle or guffaw - and send in your own Jerome Gambit games, won or lost, as White or Black.

Rick / perrypawnpusher

From: unorthodoxchessopenings@yahoogroups.com

Sent:Thu 5/28/09 9:13 AM
To: UnorthodoxChessOpenings@yahoogroups.com

Hello,

Thanks you for answer, all is clear. I have never played the Jerome Gambit but why not!! I play many times Bishop Opening. Do you know a Jerome database for download?

I hope to study a little this gambit before play it

Regards.


Well, it turns out that my correspondent was was just in time! Check out tomorrow's post.

Yahoo Groups - Brazil

There is a spirited discussion of the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+) going on in one of the Portugese language Yahoo groups, "Clube de Xadrez" at Yahoo Brazil: http://br.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/clube-de-xadrez/message/35124

I hope to see some Jerome Gambit games as a result - and, if so, I will share them with Readers.