Jerome Gambit: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

Long live the Jerome dynasty!

Im about 1800-2000 rated player and i play jeromes gambit always
Its so exciting

How did you get to see Mr. Belvedere naked?

Major camera upgrade!

Ayo shouts out to Michael yang

There's ONE master game in lichess database for the Jerome Gambit. In it, black declines the sacrifice with Ke7. The comment thread is comedy gold.

He played C3 and was PO'd (C-3PO from starwars) that he couldnt play rook on 2 to D 2 (R2D2 star wars robot). Kinda a stretch on the last line but chess jokes are great!

"Tal was short, and Short is tall, and ..."

I can't remember the rest 😭😭😭

For the jerome

intuitively i would defend with Ng6, d6, Nf6 and I have evavuated the king way to often like that with e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 Bc4 Nxe4 Nxe4 Bxf7+ nonsense...
but I thought that the d4 e4 f4 pawn formation may be too much for the pony on f6. too slow appearantly.

Come for the chess, stay for the jokes.

LaShawn variation

Wouldn't best mathematician/chessplayer be Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, instead of that Paxton-guy? If MVL doesn't count for some reason, then how about GM Mauricio Flores Rios?

I thought the most famous mathematician chess player was Lasker

Even that guy who understands every joke didn't understand these ones my dear

Aman also played Jerome Declined (Kf8 after Bxf7+), but I think that was against roofus/doofus.

Aman has amazing series of videos with him playing the Jerome Gambit. Thanks for the fun lecture! :)

all of this is hilarious! 😀

I’ve got two Andrew Jiangs, one for each of ya

hi

Is the Jerome making the rounds again ?

Why do they call it an unsound opening? I can hear everything Ben says just fine.

Honey! Honey! another grandmaster has validated the Jerome. I told you it was good!

Aman is my fave, even after he got normal hair.

First played in the game, “The truth vs it hurts”. 😂

I am not the favorite child ,truth hurts 😭

"Who's the best chess player who's a mathematician, and who's the best mathematician who's a chess player" I thought Ben was going to say John Nunn

This is exactly what Jerome would've wanted

Thanks a lot to GM Ben and Karen, it was a pleasure E-meeting you and seeing the lecture! Go Jerome!

I like the pop-up that showed up: "Jerome Gambit. Save?" Implying it can be saved.

Rice gambit lecture when?

For Jerome

4. B4!

Yeah im planning on publishing a book about how to win a queen up.

Watching Ben in 4k is glorious go Ben!

This was first played in the game "The Truth vs It Hurts" 😂👍

Grandmaster Gambit sure was prolific! Dozens of openings named after him and he kept on innovating! Commendable 😎

Has aman reacted to this on stream yet anyone ?

Jerome sounds like a cool dude. Evan on the other hand? Not so much.

🎶"Now Jerome"🎶

oh man i know this jerome gambit site... i think he even has a game there where he wins againt Anatoly Kapov, although it's a dfferent Anatoly Karpov from who you think xD

Go, Ben!

R2D2

First I heard of the Jerome Gambit was from Ben's stream years ago telling the story about his brother!

I'll just stick with the Evans Gambit. Thanks.

whats the refutation ?

The issue with the Jerome is that the diagonal a2-g8 is weak for black, but there is no light-squared bishop for white to exploit that weakness. Also, sacking the only two pieces that are developed means there's only a queen trying to fork things.

It's still the city of brotherly love, but as I tell visitors to the city, "Remember: Brothers can be a-holes."