Dude, if you are going to stalk me all over the chess publishing forum at least try and not embarras yourself:
Markovich wrote on 07/08/12 at 11:47:48:
Why, oh why, do devotees of minor systems….
Where do you get ‘devotee’ from? Because I ask about the Grob and actually know what the Romford counter gambit is? ....Yet another stretch in a long line of stretches. The last record I have of playing the Grob was in 1999, it was a postal match.
Markovich wrote on 07/08/12 at 11:47:48:
……feel the need to find names for all of the seldom-played various that they study, and why in particular to they name them after obscure players?
Study? Just because I know about does not mean I study it. One should know about such in case one gets caught out…
As for the name, if I must. The exchange sacrifice in the Grob starting with 3.c4 d4 is credited to one Nicholas Pelling of Romford in east London, England by the American’s Grandmaster Joel Benjamin and Eric Schiller in Batsford’s 1987 book Unorthodox Chess Openings (pages 76 & 77). In the following year Hugh Myers in issue 39 of his ‘Myers Opening Bulletin’ in a review of the afore mentioned Batsford book refers to it as the Romford Counter Gambit (page 18) sighting it in regards of analysis from an earlier MOB (issue 20). Then in the June 12th 1995 edition of Inside Chess (pages 29 & 30), International Master John Watson also refers to it has the Romford Counter Gambit (and on a side note, his article is actually quite good).
Markovich wrote on 07/08/12 at 11:47:48:
But to come to my point, what, please, is the Romford Counter Gambit?
Check the other posts or read a chess book……I don’t care which
And finally
Severino wrote on 07/08/12 at 13:21:27:
Bibs - Gambit and Hadron the same person? They both seem to be teenagers but apart from that I do not see it.
As for being Gambit, thanks for the compliment but…no….Although I do so admire his passion for chess at times even if it can be a little excessive especially in the face of the trolls and troglodytes who attempt to tear him down for it (I am getting to know how he feels) and as for being a teenager, sometime I do wish I was again …..
Hadron
Unfortunate that Schiller/Benjamin appears to be the single original source. You note that others cite (note the spelling) that.
Schiller likely consistently the worst chess writer. Critics may argue whether he is lazy or hapless, but that need not detain us here. This collaboration with Benjamin a worthy contender for Worst Ten lists.
Doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Worth noting by the way that Basman was a very strong player at one point. Who knew the rules he was breaking. Most who play this stuff don't. Avoid.
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