Jerome Gambit: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold

The Jerome Gambit is an unsound chess opening which is an offshoot of the Giuoco Piano. This lecture was recorded on August 19, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia.

07:59 NN vs. Joseph Blackburne, London 1884
18:16 Aman Hambleton vs. Thalia Cervantes, Titled Tuesday 2022
23:00 Aman Hambleton vs. Andrew Jiang, Titled Tuesday 2023
27:46 Aman Hambleton vs. M Dejmek, Titled Tuesday 2021

Thank you to Michael Yang for sponsoring this lecture.
Happy Birthday to Tyrus McCartney from the city of Brotherly Love. May he always find Kg7. Even though his elo rating isn't that far off, Tyrus has never beaten Mike and he has that in writing!

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[kozodoev]

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

[SergeySklonin]

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

[PastorYoda-wvtd]

“He put the Black in Blackburn” is CRAZY

[nigglewiggle]

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[MikeInvests]

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

[douglaslarosa]

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

[dashyz]

It may be a Jerome Gambit lecture, but at least it's Vishwasomethin'. Sometimes you just can't do Vishwanothin'.

[anosmianAcrimony]

"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

[willfulliam]

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

[nimzomitch]

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

I can't remember the rest 😭😭😭

[lukacalov]

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

[markroo]

"this was first played between The Truth vs. It Hurts". 😂 Funny one, Ben!

[agent]

C-3PO is a humanoid robot character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a protocol droid designed to assist in etiquette and translation, and is fluent in over six million forms of communication. The character appears in all nine films of the Skywalker Saga—which includes the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy.

[sublimeade]

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

[kmarasin]

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.

[ZsebtelepHUN]

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

[Joseph]

The difference between Andrew and Thalia's games - Andrew didn't understand: just because you know your opponent is bluffing - doesn't mean you can call with J 7... as I always say: you don't have to castle, but you've gotta get your king safe in the opening or your king will be unsafe in the middle-game.

[Bradley_UA]

The Jerome! Ahahbaha, in 2024, and it's not even an old lecture! What sort of troll sponsor requested it. This is absolutely disgusting, gonna watch at least twice.

[facespaz]

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

[egads]

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