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What is the elephant gambit?

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SamyaChakrabarti
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Jul 30, 2021
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#1

please write it in the comments

baddogno
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Jul 30, 2021
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#2

Here's a few previous threads...

https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=elephant+gambit

tygxc
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Jul 30, 2021
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It has no good reputation
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1599979 

PSV-1988
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Jul 30, 2021
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There was a book released on it last year, called The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit. General consensus seems to be that ultimately the gambit is not fully sound, but can be quite fun and an excellent blitz weapon.

PSV-1988
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Tad2721 wrote:
PSV-1988 wrote:

There was a book released on it last year, called The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit. General consensus seems to be that ultimately the gambit is not fully sound, but can be quite fun and an excellent blitz weapon.

Wrong. There is no fun lines like in the Latvian Gambit, the Elephant straight up gives a pawn

I'll respectfully disagree, and leave it at that happy.png

Rancid-Knight
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Jul 30, 2021
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Just bought that Elephant Gambit book recently. Looking forward to going through it. However, I wish there were more modern books on the Latvian Gambit these days, which I feel is superior to the Elephant Gambit but yet still somewhat dubious vs e4.