Friday, June 9, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Slicing the Silicon

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Here we have another human - computer battle, where the silicon beast can not make sense out of the Jerome Gambit, even as human observers m...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Facing the Jerome Gambit: Artificial Non-Intelligence

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Programmers who create chess-playing engines usually try to make them as strong as possible. They then develop ways to scale back the streng...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Jerome Gambit: The Queen Goes Where She Will

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One thing that seems to give defenders a sense of ease is the number of times White's Queen moves in the Jerome Gambit. It is important ...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Fighting The Annoying Defense

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Chessfriend Vlasta faces the "annoying defense" and shows that while White does not have have a lot to work with, neither does Bla...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Jerome Gambit: Too Much of A Good Thing?

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In the particular Jerome Gambit line in the following game, Black is faced with returning one of the two pieces that White sacrificed. He ha...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Chess is Difficult: All You Have To Do Is Win

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Chess is difficult. The following game quickly reaches a position which has a score of 72% for White in The Database. There is a rating di...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Fascinated by the Jerome Gambit

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In the book review of The Art of the Checkmate by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn at the online Chessentials site, the  Jerome Gambit game ...