[BrianWall-ChessList] New opening - The English Elephant Gambit

Thu Jun 18 01:27:25 MDT 2009

Statistics for DirkGently         On for:   28     Idle:    0
DirkGently is currently involved in a match against invalidovich.

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Bullet          1134  [8]     0     1     0     1
Blitz           2234  [7]   946   545   101  1592   2234 (17-Jun-2009)
5-minute        1933       1602  1553   235  3390   2288 (12-Dec-2008)
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New opening - The English Elephant

Before this it's been tried randomly, scoring 1 win our of 6 games.

My idea is this:
1 e4  e5  2 Nf3  d5
is the Elephant Gambit
3 ed  Bd6

We have all been programmed that the English is designed to control d5.
The English Elephant Gambit is a slap in White's face to this propaganda.
We simply play  1 c4  e5   2  Nc3  d5!!  3  cd  Bd6
like the Elephant Gambit and go from there.

My opponent was so horrified and outraged at my effrontery that he played super
slow and carefully as English players are wont to do. I hung in there as best
I could until his flag fell. I still had 1:31 left. DirkGently didn't care,
he just didn't want me to escape ON THE BOARD. DirkGently played very well.

And this a new opening was born. "Inventing" an opening is the
fastest way to learn all the other names that have gone before me.

[Event "ICC 5 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.06.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "DirkGently"]
[Black "B-Wall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "1933"]
[BlackElo "2169"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[ECO "A21"]
[NIC "EO.23"]
[Time "03:02:49"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 d5 3. cxd5 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. g3 e4 6. Nd4 O-O 7. Bg2 Re8 8.
O-O Nbd7 9. d3 exd3 10. Qxd3 Nc5 11. Qc2 Bg4 12. Re1 Qd7 13. b4 Na6 14. a3
Bh3 15. Bg5 Bxg2 16. Kxg2 Ng4 17. Qf5 Qxf5 18. Nxf5 Be5 19. Rac1 h6 20. Bf4
Bxf4 21. gxf4 Rad8 22. f3 Nf6 23. e4 Nh5 24. Ne2 Rd7 25. Kf2 Kh7 26. Rc2 g6
27. Ne3 Ng7 28. Rec1 Ree7 29. Ng4 Ne8 30. Ne5 Rd6 31. Nd4 f6 32. Ng4 f5 33.
Ne5 fxe4 34. fxe4 Nf6 35. Kf3 Nxd5 36. exd5 Rxd5 37. Rc4 c6 38. a4 Nxb4 39.
Rxb4 c5 40. Rb5 Rxd4 41. Rbxc5 g5 42. Rc7 Rxc7 43. Rxc7+ Kg8 44. f5 Rf4+ 45.
Ke3 Rxf5 46. Ke4 Rf4+ 47. Kd5 Rxa4 48. Rxb7 {White resigns} 0-1

[Event "GER-ch23 sf4 corr"]
[Site "Germany"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Loeffler,Werner"]
[Black "John,Helmut"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "D08"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 exd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Qd2 Nf6 6.g3 Be6 7.Nxd5 Ne5 8.b3 Ne4
9.Qe3 c6 10.Qxe4 cxd5 11.cxd5 Qa5+ 12.Bd2 Bxd5 13.Bxa5 Bxe4 14.f3 Bc6 15.0-0-0
Ng4 16.Nh3 Be7
17.e4 Ne3 18.Rd4 b6 19.Bd2 Nxf1 20.Rxf1 Bf6 21.Rd6 Rc8 22.Kb1 Be5 23.Bf4 Bxd6
24.Bxd6 f6
25.Nf4 Kf7 26.Ng2 Rhd8 27.Bf4 g5 28.Be3 g4 29.Kb2 Rd3 30.Rf2 gxf3 31.Rxf3 Bxe4
32.Ne1 Rcd8
33.Nxd3 Rxd3 34.Rf4 Rxe3 35.Rf2 h5 36.Rd2 Ke6 37.Ka3 h4 38.gxh4 Rh3 39.Kb4 Rxh4
40.Kb5 Rh5+
41.Kc4 f5 0-1

[Event "Belconnen Spring Cup"]
[Site "Belconnen"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Murphy,Benjamin"]
[Black "Walsh,Patrick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.Nxe5 cxd5 6.g3 Ne4 7.Bg2 Bd6 8.Nxd5 Bxe5
9.Bxe4 Be6 10.Nb4 f5 11.Bxb7 a5 12.Bxa8 axb4 13.Qa4+ Bd7 14.Qxb4 Kf7 1-0

[Event "SJR-ch U18 Girls"]
[Site "Bendorf"]
[Date "2001.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Uhl,Angelina"]
[Black "Moeller,Siwana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.Nf3 Nxd5 5.Nxe5 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.g3 Bb7 8.Bg2 Be7
9.0-0 0-0 10.Qb3 Rb8 11.d3 Qd7 12.Rb1 Rfd8 13.Bd2 c5 14.Nxd5 Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Qxd5
16.Bxd5 Rxd5
17.Rfc1 Rbd8 18.b4 Re5 19.Kf1 Re8 20.Bf4 Re6 21.bxc5 Bd8 22.Rc2 g5 23.Bc1 h5
24.e3 f5
25.Rc4  1-0

[Event "IECC M email"]
[Site "IECC email"]
[Date "2003.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Tutuianu,Aurelian"]
[Black "Bennett,Terry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.e4 Bc5 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4 0-0 8.Be3 Re8
9.f3 g6 10.Qd2 Ne5 11.Be2 a6 12.Rc1 Bd7 13.Bg5 Be7 14.f4 c5 15.Nb3 Neg4 16.d6
Bf8
17.e5 h6 18.Bxf6 Nxf6 19.Nxc5 Bc6 20.0-0 b6 21.Nxa6 Rc8 22.Rfd1 Ne4 23.Nxe4 Bxe4
24.Nc7 Qh4
1-0

[Event "BRA CEAX op 2nd "]
[Site "Brazil"]
[Date "2003.07.??"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Carvalho,Welliton"]
[Black "Rogai,M"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nxd5 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bd7 5.d3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.g3 0-0 8.Bg2 Ng4
9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.Nd5 Qc5 11.e3 Nb4 12.h3 Nxd5 13.hxg4 Qb4+ 14.Kf1 Nf6 15.g5 Bg4
16.f3 Nh5
17.fxg4 Nxg3+ 18.Kf2 Nxh1+ 19.Bxh1 f5 20.Bd5+ Kh8 21.gxf5 Rxf5+ 22.Nf3 Raf8
23.Kg3 Qb6 24.Qe2 c6
25.Be4 R5f7 26.g6 Rf6 27.Rh1 h6 28.Rh4 c5 29.Rg4 Qe6 30.Ng5 hxg5 31.Qh2+  1-0

[Event "Loire-ch op 0405"]
[Site "Loire"]
[Date "2004.10.16"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Doucet,Medhi"]
[Black "Veyrat,Gerard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A21"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Bd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e4 Bg4 6.Be2 c6 7.dxc6 Nxc6 8.Qb3 Nd4
9.Nxd4 exd4 10.Qa4+ Bd7 11.Qxd4 Be7 12.e5 Ng8 13.Nd5 Be6 14.Qa4+ Bd7 15.Bb5 Bxb5
16.Qxb5+ Kf8
17.Nxe7 Qxe7 18.0-0 Nh6 19.d4 Nf5 20.Rd1 a6 21.Qa4 b5 22.Qa5 Qe6 23.Bf4 f6 24.d5
Qc8
25.e6 Qc5 26.d6 g5 27.Rac1 Qa7 28.Qc3 Kg7 29.Bxg5 Rhf8 30.Qc7+ Qxc7 31.Rxc7+ Kg6
32.Bf4 Rae8
33.g4 Nxd6 34.Rxd6 f5 35.g5 Kh5 36.h3 b4 37.Rxh7+ Kg6 38.Rh6+ Kg7 39.Rd7+ Kg8
40.Be5
1-0