Saturday, August 16, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Wrongly Remembered

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The following Jerome Gambit game features two 1900+ players with a half hour each to play, and suggests that being guided by an idea, wrongl...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Jerome Gambit: A Closer Look

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The other day I was looking at the Jerome Gambit game CassomaD4 - covich, lichess.org, 2025 (1–0, 26), and began to ponder the value of Whi...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Kingside Danger

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Often when things go bad for Black's King, it wanders far afield and is checkmated on the Queenside. However, wandering on the Kingside ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Fast and Slow

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At the club level, especially in games with quick time controls, accepting the sacrifices in the Jerome Gambit can be dangerous, quickly; bu...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

The Drawn Game World Vice-Champion Ekaterina V. Kovalevskaya - Yury V. Bukayev 

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The Drawn Game World Vice-Champion Ekaterina V. Kovalevskaya - Yury V. Bukayev                           15-board simultaneous exhibition, M...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Hmmm... I Didn't Know That

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Recently, an opponent in one of my games at Chess.com made a slip, a move that would hang his Queen. He messaged me to let me know. I messa...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Jerome Gambit: New Video

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  If you would like a video primer of how to deal with a defender who only wants to take the first sacrificed piece in the Jerome Gambit ( 1...