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Starting from this day I would post small columns of chess openings as a place for our teammates to share the knowledge and practical experience that are not present in books or databases. I wish it would be useful in team matches, blitz play or lessen the work on facing side openings.

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[Shameless disclaimer]

1. For selfish reason, I would not write about openings that I use/used/will use except very introductory stuff or weird lines. Please find volunteers in place of me. (New writers are very welcomed!)

2. Post tabiya analysis shall not be in detail since engine shall be employed and non-database move is the major inspection target of Chess.com's anti-cheetah mechanism;

3. Mostly soft targets, that is, sidelines or below borderline openings shall be covered and the investigation shall take at max of 1.5 hours. Please turn to books for main-main-main line and engines for side-side-side lines!

4. I would strive to find less-mentioned but practical/clean/human-friendly lines or branches if possible at all. Responsibility of the ultimate choice shall be laid upon the players.

5. Blitzkrieg victory games would mostly be absent and encyclopedic theory is out of question.

6. Issue of new column shall come out from daily to monthly in-con-clusive.

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Here is my engine analysis for the lesser played path. (I cannot make a decent one bare-handed: a d4 player would require major surgery to turn herself to a e4 guy!) Wish this prove useful as this avoids quite a lot pitfalls resulting from following the GIANT VOTE CHESS GAME (the database).

Hint: There exists an arrow button where you can fast foward to word-containing positions.

Further reading (Where I give no credit to them for my own work above. Maybe next time.):

Taking Out The Trash - Part 2 - The Elephant Gambit

• NM ih8sens

http://www.chess.com/blog/ih8sens/taking-out-the-trash---part-2---the-elephant-gambit

AGAINST THE ELEPHANT GAMBIT

• FM FM_Eric_Schiller

http://www.ericschiller.com/pdf/ElephantGambit_SBACO.pdf

Lastly, to save your mechanical energy output in Ctrl+C Ctrl+V or typing the 14-15 character phrase:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Gambit

Comments , topic suggestions , request for clarification , sharing of experience or even chatting are warmly welcomed. Lets make Team Hong Kong a place for "Play, Learn, Share" !

While logical continuation of the column would be Latvian Gambit, I believe this is not so easy and I wish to choose an easier one to work on. Any ideas?

Move 9. why did you allow the knight to take the pawn on e5? why not bf4? 

White is up in development and so opening lines would benefit him. Black can't hold on to e4 and I don't see how Black defends c7 after Nb5 or Nd5 and Bf4. If Black is idiotic enough to go Kd8 then you have Rd1. (Black probably still has some play though with Bg4)