Saturday, September 26, 2026

Tilt

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  I stumbled across  Shawn Bennett 's short piece on  The House of Staunton  website, " Chess Trolling: The Art of Playing Bad Ches...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Patiently Untangling Things

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                                        The Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) does not always lead to wide-open position...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

My Drawn Simultaneous Exhibition Game Against GM Sergey Smagin

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                                                         My Drawn Simultaneous Exhibition Game Against GM Sergey Smagin (by Yury V. Bukayev)...
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Jerome Gambit: To ...d5 or Not ...d5

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When defending against the Jerome Gambit, a player needs to consider the thematic moves, such as ...Qd8-f6 and ...d7-d5 . While sometimes ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Against the Barbarian

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In the following Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) game, SkillerEP fights a barbarian, successfully wielding the opening...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Jerome Gambit: Rare Move, Indeed

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According to The Database, White has played  1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ in over 55,500 games. Black has declined the Bishop in abo...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Back to Preschool

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  Today, I was back, again, at  the very informal chess club  that gathers at a local library. A decade and a half earlier, in the post ...