also treat like quick grasp of elephant opening to get ideas of its pros/cons and see if can use when i attack using 5-phao. Help me learn this opening really must go into mountain and invest long time to master and really must research specialised mid-games (not 5-phao kind) and mental power/patience. Anyway, I have mentor and senior do crashcourse review so i can get quick idea. But they say its kind of mid-game not suitable for me at the moment. Exposed my weak mid-game when the pieces depend on tactical play (constant high usuage of chess advanced theory)instead of simplier positional play.

The breakthrough can be unexpected and unrecoverable mostly with gain/lose of 1 piece. The requirement for overall game awareness is very high on top of the depth of research needed before the tournament. Without kung-fu style midgames and abundant endgame experience will be very disadvantaged especially in time-based tournaments. So confirmed not good for beginner like us.

If we take black and use this opening then is ok for us :-). Pressure is on Red.

---kurubear