https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?board=bird Bird's - ChessPub Forum en-us ChessPub Forum Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:53:41 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 30 https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1263837093 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1263837093 Mon, 8 Nov 2021 18:03:07 GMT <a href="https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1263837093/47#47">Bibs wrote</a> on 11/08/21 at 08:36:25:<br /><div id="163D36275400">1.f4 g5<br /><br />I admit to having played this in online blitz. </div><!--163D36275400--><br />I have also played it a few times, via 1.f4 h6 2."any" g5, once in a rated OTB game. I won with black but that proves nothing. I tried it again recently in a casual game and almost managed to dig myself out of the hole, but failed in the end. The Hobbs (or Hobbs Deferred) is not good, but like the Wing Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.b4) it's not as bad as it looks. I'm not posting any refutations, though, because this thread is supposed to be about the From Gambit. https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1201187130 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1201187130 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:07:34 GMT Georg Deppe Froms Gambit Schachverlag Rudi Schmaus 6900 HeidelbergJuly 1979 https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1480638906 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1480638906 Fri, 2 Dec 2016 16:07:58 GMT The Austrian isn't bad of course, but a pure tempo down?!<br /><br />The same sort of theme(s) perhaps become mildly more relevant in that c4/d4/e3/Be2 stuff that Grischuk played a couple of times. https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1432147689 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1432147689 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 04:43:06 GMT I would not buy anything that has to do with the Bird! <img rel=";D" src="https://www.chesspub.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/grin.gif" alt="Grin" title="Grin" /> https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1329798600 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1329798600 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:37:50 GMT BigBird 4th Edition has just been released by Sid Pickard via ChessCentral for download. He says this will be his final effort. https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1427727615 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1427727615 Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:03:05 GMT Both books in one volume, now in paperback for $14.99.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Polar-Bear-System-Strong-potent/dp/1523904550/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470754847&sr=1-1" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Polar-Bear-System-Strong-potent/dp/1523904550/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470754847&sr=1-1</a><br /><br />But, if I want it in ebook form I have to buy both books for $18  <img rel="&#58;'&#40;" src="https://www.chesspub.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/cry.gif" alt="Cry" title="Cry" /> https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1417726062 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1417726062 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:51:32 GMT GM Danielsen is publishing a new book on Polar Bear System, Dutch Leningrad with reversed colors. See news on chessdom.com https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1138336103 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1138336103 Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:43:36 GMT With any book you have to pull your own ideas from it.  Yet, I know what you guys mean by steering clear of lines offered in a popular book.  I stay clear of Danielsen's 4.h3 response the the "recipe"  ( I just don't trust that line) Against the "recipe" I've always preferred to go into "colors reversed" French lines with a tempo up (Yes I'm a French Player) or (as Taylor points out "favorable" lines in the King's Gambit. Although before Taylor's book, I didn't know these lines were King's Gambit lines..   https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1322586787 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1322586787 Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:25:30 GMT Been playing the Bird for quite some time now. I agree, there are specifics in the Bird where the extra tempo can nullify the bid for the advantage. However 1.f4 I think is a solid first move. Plenty of ideas in the Classical Bird to try for an advantage. (not so much in the well worked out "Queenside Fianchetto" lines.)  I'm also not so much of a fan of "Leningrad Bird" (yet a lot of people are) I think,  if Black plays 1...c5 to me...  if White continues with g3 & Bg2 it plays into strategies well known to the Sicilian player (Because of the KIA and Closed var's)  I'm with Taylor Bird analysis on approaching 1...c5 with reverse English ...e5 lines (or reverse Classical Dutch lines ) I don't think your average Sicilian players is going to be familiar with these lines. And these lines can have real bite.  Also of the unbalancing nature of 1...c5,  IMO few if any var have that I've looked at are subject to the "extra tempo get's in the way effect"  All this said.... Personally, I think 1...f5 (The Symmetrical Bird)  is one of the best responses for Black, these lines are just as complex as Symmetrical English lines.. <br /><br />Just my 2 cents  https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1325859819 ChessPub Forum/Bird's https://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/chess/YaBB.pl?num=1325859819 Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:31:08 GMT Was I the only one who clicked this thread to see what was concealed from whom?  <img rel=";&#45;&#41;" src="https://www.chesspub.com/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />