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, June 20, 2026

Jerome Gambit: And, Yet... (Part 1)

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I thought that this blog had finished off this game's opening variation with posts like this, from " Jerome Gambit: I Tried ",...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Tactics To The Rescue

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1-minute bullet games require an attention to tactics.  I suppose that if you took only a second of thinking time per move, you could establ...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit: Chess Indigestion

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  In the following game, Black creates his own problems by ingesting too many pawns. yankaramparmkatan -  KIGO67 classical, lichess.org, 202...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Confuzzled

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  My main chess tools used in preparing this blog are an ancient version of Chessbase - #9 - and Stockfish (currently 17.1) running in the F...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Black is Winning, Until He Isn't

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I have seen it happen (The Database says tens of thousands of times) in the Jerome Gambit: White has a blistering attack, although "obj...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Nightmare

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I dream of smashing, crashing attacks flowing from the Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+). The opening, however, can be und...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Cure Worse Than the Illness

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Sometimes, in finding a way to avoid an attack, the defender finds himself in even more of a problem. In that case, the "cure" can...
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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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