The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit by Michael Agermose Jensen and Jakob Aabling-Thomsen

The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit by Michael Agermose Jensen and Jakob Aabling-Thomsen

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The Elephant Gambit is perhaps the boldest opening in all of chess theory. By meeting 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 with 2...d5!?, Black takes the fight to his opponent and aims to seize the initiative as early as possible.

The Exhilarating Elephant Gambit offers a complete repertoire for Black, based on 3.exd5 Bd6 or 3.Nxe5 Bd6 4.d4 dxe4. In return for the sacrificed pawn, Black ensures himself of quick and active development with most of his pieces pointing menacingly towards the enemy kingside. Attacking and other tactical resources abound, with a future ...e4-e3 advance often mauling White’s position like an Elephant’s tusk. With original analysis of all variations and improvements against all published “refutations”, this book contains everything you need to shock, surprise and stampede your opponents.

Jakob Aabling-Thomsen is a Danish international master and Elephant expert who is known for his attacking and uncompromising playing style.

Michael Agermose Jensen is an experienced tournament competitor who has been playing and studying the Elephant Gambit since 1997. He is the author of numerous physics and mathematics books. This is his first chess book.

"An extremely well-researched and enthusiastically-written book... the authors do a great job of squeezing out the maximum from Black's position and manage to make a convincing case for counterplay in most of the lines...

A brief read of the book gave me an additional fun and high-scoring weapon in blitz (it is a particularly useful weapon against pre-moving Italian Game practitioners: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bc4!) and, since that's the only chess most of us are getting right now, this is probably as useful a book for the Internet age as any! Good fun, good weapon for blitz, 4 stars!"