Good job. Now you can get on with clearing up the water. The chlorine smell means that the bleach you're adding is doing its job--when it attacks something in the water, it forms byproducts, one of which is chloramine, that you are smelling. So....that chlorine smell means you need......more bleach!!!

The sweet gum balls are a real pain--not much good for anything except brother/sister gumball fights (we had one in the yard where I grew up and my brother and I used to pelt each other with them). My Walmart sells a "leaf rake", which is basically a deep net with what looks like a squeegee on the rim that you can use like a shovel to scoop junk off the bottom. If you have access to something like that, maybe it would help with the gum balls. You can leave them in the pool until you can see them better if necessary, but it will be a waste of chlorine--the more organic stuff you can remove, the more of your bleach will be available to work on the algae.

So--up your chlorine level, keep it up, and you should start seeing results pretty quick!

Janet