Saturday, November 1, 2025

Jerome Gambit: It Only Takes One Slip

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One attraction of the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) for club players is that it might only take one slip for the def...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Jerome Gambit: From Over 20 Years Ago (Part 2)

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  In yesterday's post , I presented  James F. Holwell's (chessteacher ) suggestion in a long-ago  Yahoo.com Chess_Improvement discu...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Jerome Gambit: From Over 20 Years Ago (Part 1)

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I found the following Yahoo.com Chess_Improvement messages from over 20 years ago - before the start of this blog - tucked in one of my data...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Dodgy Defense

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The following Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) game illustrates an interesting defense. It also provides a warning to p...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Cool! A 19-Move Something-or-Other

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The intricacies of the following bullet game can better be appreciated if we slow time down - with annotations. I continue to be impressed b...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Jerome Gambit: While Pondering

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While I continue to ponder the game Salov,V - Vancouver, Friedel 1991 (1-0, 22) in The Database, I thought I would share a game that recent...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Jerome Gambit: Proceed Carefully

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  Almost 400 games in The Database have the features illustrated in the following position. It is Black's move, and he should do what ?...