The Jerome Gambit

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ...and related lines
(risky/nonrisky lines, tactics & psychology for fast, exciting play)

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Borrowed

Readers of this blog continue to share games that they have played where they have "borrowed" the Jerome Gambit's idea of Bxf7...

Friday, April 2, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Artificial Wha?

Sometimes a chess computer program can act as an interesting model of a human chess player. Lately, in part because of my interest in the Je...

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Sometimes Enlightenment Does Not Come (Part 2)

[continued from the previous post] perrypawnpusher - DaniyarManat 1 day/move, Chess.com, 2021 I suddenly realized that my d-pawn was pinn...

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Sometimes Enlightenment Does Not Come (Part 1)

When I finish a complicated game of chess I am often happy to turn it over to one of my silicon friends - nowadays, Stockfish 13 - to help m...

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Bullet

Bullet games amaze me. I am amazed that people can think that fast. By comparison, I am sure that my first and last bullet game would go som...

Monday, March 29, 2021

The Story of the Jerome Gambit

The Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) is a school for tactics. Ideally, the players discover all of the moves during th...

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Jerome Gambit: Always Educational

I ran across a video the other day featuring FM Noam Aviv Vitenberg playing the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ). It ...

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About Me

Rick Kennedy: I've been researching Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's gambit since 2001. I am always interested in receiving games and analysis: as old as 1874, when the opening first was published, or as recent as today -- casual or serious, blitz or classical time settings, human or computer (or both). Readers can reach me at richardfkennedy@hotmail.com. perrypawnpusher is the name I play under at different chess sites. My book reviews and fiction were at Chessville.com - while it lived. I have written for Chess Life, School Mates, and Chess Life for Kids. Dedicated researchers may connect my name to that of Riley Sheffield - we co-wrote The Marshall Gambit in the French and Sicilian Defenses , published by Dale Brandreth's Caissa in 1988.

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