Saturday, April 5, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Slow advance

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Some Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) games feel like White is racing to attack and win material or checkmate the enemy...
Friday, April 4, 2025

Jerome Gambit: He Should Have Stuck with Boring

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The following short Jerome Gambit game illustrates the idea that a proper defense - and there are many - can (and, maybe, should) be boring ...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Just In Time

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                                                           Just in time, chessriddler contributes a game that fills in a gap in current Jero...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Reader Contribution?

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  Yesterday's post was a small attempt to address April 1 - April Fool's Day. A clue was the "reader's" name, Avril Fu...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Reader Contribution

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  Reader  Avril Furst sends the following position from a recent Jerome Gambit game, showing a brutal checkmate of Black's King. Not onl...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Counter-Attack Countered by Attack

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In the following game, Bill Wall, as White, takes his time with the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ), absorbing the blo...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Jerome Gambit: You Can Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later

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In the 1970s and 1980s, the FRAM company ran television commercials for their automobile oil filter, warning "You can pay me now or pay...