The Elephant Gambit | Queen’s Pawn Countergambit | Chess Openings | Gambits | Andrey Ostrovskiy

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In this video, IM Andrey Ostrovskiy brings to you the Elephant Gambit. The Elephant Gambit starts with the moves:

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5

The Elephant Gambit is a very useful surprise weapon and definitely one worth knowing. Black plays very aggressive to take over the initiative early on.

[Event “Elephant_Gambit”]
[Site “”]
[Date “2019”]
[ECO “C40”]
[Annotator “Andrey_Ostrovskiy”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 (3. Nxe5 Bd6 4. d4 dxe4 5. Nc3 Bxe5 6. dxe5 Qxd1+ 7.
Kxd1 Bf5 8. Nd5 Na6 9. Bxa6 O-O-O 10. Ke2 Rxd5 11. Bc4 Rc5 12. Bb3 Ne7 13. Be3
Rxe5 14. Bd4 Bg4+ 15. Ke3 Nd5+) 3… e4 4. Qe2 (4. Ne5 Qxd5 5. d4 exd3 6. Nxd3
Nf6) 4… Nf6 5. Nc3 (5. d3 Qxd5 6. Nbd2!? (6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Bd2 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 O-O
9. dxe4 Nxe4 10. Rd1 Nxc3 11. Rxd5 Nxe2 12. Bxe2) 6… Nc6 7. dxe4 Qh5 8. Qb5
Bc5 9. Nb3 Nxe4 10. Be3 Bb4+ 11. c3 Qxb5 12. Bxb5 Bd6 13. Na5 (13. Nfd4) 13…
a6 14. Bxc6+ bxc6 15. Nxc6 Bd7 16. Na5 Rb8 17. Nc4 Be7 18. O-O-O Be6 19. Na5
Bxa2 20. Nc6 Ra8 21. Rhe1) 5… Be7 6. Nxe4 O-O 7. d3 Nxd5 8. Qd1 Nc6 9. Be2 Bf5
10. O-O Qd7 11. Bd2 Rfe8 12. c3 Rad8 13. Qc2 Nf6 *


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