Play the Elephant Gambit like GM Abdulla Gadimbayli (Opening Champion Series)

Opening Champion - GM Abdulla Gadimbayli

This is the third installment of my Opening Champion Series where we are covering notable online blitz players who are champions of fun and crushing openings. Gadimbayli is a national champion of Azerbaijan and winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 2022. He also frequently crushes his competition in online speed chess and is currently ranked #31 in online blitz. Lucky for us, he also has a taste for gambits and wields the Elephant Gambit like Thor's hammer.

The Study - Play the Elephant Gambit like GM Abdulla Gadimbayli (Abik02)

The below study is the latest installment of my "Play like..." Interactive Lesson series which can be best enjoyed with the Lichess Tools browser extension installed. The idea of the study is to learn Gadimbayli's treatment of the Elephant Gambit with a spaced-repetition philosophy.

The study includes many of the 1200+ blitz games that Gadimbayli has played in these lines up to move 20, which were downloaded, merged, and then I separated out the lines. In each chapter, I present a Gadimbayli main line up to a certain point (typically when there's 10-20 games left in a particular line). After that, you are playing through his games in that line up to move 20. As you play through the games, you should be naturally internalizing the middle game plans.

Here is the study:

LichessTools

To get the most out of this study you should add the LichessTools browser extension. LichessTools allows you to play through all the games/variations in an interactive lesson chapter (rather than just the single main line). So if you decline to add LiChess Tools then you are only playing 10% of the study. Available here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/langlhlcknngldkeliapahbhbcmlcbcj

Cheers,

Dsoul20