Ancient Dance - The Kahiko-Hula Gambit

Ancient Dance - The Kahiko-Hula Gambit
by Clyde Nakamura

In 1998 I had discovered another gambit similar to the Keoni-Hiva Gambit (1.e3 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3).  The moves of my discovery are:

1.c4 e5 2.e3 Nf6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3

This is the main accepted line.  (Please note that there are other accepted lines.) I had named this gambit the Kahiko-Hula Gambit.  In Hawaiian, Kahiko means ancient and Hula means dance.  Hula is an ancient Hawaiian dance form that dates back many
hundreds of years to the very first settlers of the Hawaiian islands from the Marquesas, Bora Bora and Tahiti.  Each hand, arm and body movement tells a story.  Legend says that the goddess Hi'iaka was the first to dance the Hula to appease her sister the volcano goddess Pele.  In ancient times the Hula was performed at religious ceremonies.  Today the Hula is mainly a form of entertainment. White intends to sacrifice the pawns at f4, e3 and d2 for quick piece development and freedom of movement for the minor pieces.  In the accepted lines White has the half open d-file, half open f-file and the open e-file.  A recurring theme in this gambit is that the posting of the white knight to d5 causes Black some problems.

See my article at Chessville at the following links:

Accepted Variation
http://www.chessville.com/UCO/CN/Kahiko-HulaGambit.htm

Declined Variation
http://www.chessville.com/UCO/CN/Kahiko-HulaGambit2.htm

See starting position of this gambit attached.

I have attached several examples of the Kahiko-Hula Gambit. See games.

Attached is my most recent game with the Kahiko-Hula Gambit game.

Bollicks. It's junk. It is what I call "Chess by mantra". Repeating it over and over will not make it sound.

The games present contain no sensible and reasoned analysis. What analysis there is engine generated. Most of the games presented are either blitz or fast time controls (I won't count the engine games because you have to trust that a move hasn't been taken back).

Bubblegum chess for the diabetic mind.

RIP Clyde. Just stumbled on this thread because I've played the English my whole life and there's hardly any gambits for white with the C4 opening. This has to be the best one, and the only sound gambit against E5. Only other two decent C4 gambits are the Symmetrical Wing Gambit, which is only in reply to C5, and the Wade Gambit, which is fun but rare since it's a response to F5 which you see very seldom. Clyde's Kahiko-Hula Gambit is like a Danish Gambit but in the middle of the board, you still sac two pawns but your bishops end up centralized instead of pointing kingside, and the center is cleared out while white castles. And looks like Clyde also exchange sacked a rook in a lot of lines too, with a lot of attacking counterplay for compensation. Really fun and novel gambit, wish I could tell Clyde thanks.

https://www.weremember.com/clyde-nakamura/9x4v/memories

Nice

This ancient thread is an interesting find. The gambit looks most suspicious to me, but it clearly can be lethal to unprepared. I admit i thought the english opening is devoid od gambits. A small eye-opener for me.