• by echecs06

  I hate it!

• by jtt96

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  I've heard of masters playing 1. a4 or 1. h4 to make the point that chess isn't about openings. Has anyone heard of a master playing the Bongcloud?

• by hessmaster

  Wow...

• by ChristianSoldier007

  Sources Consulted
  How to Regress Your Chess by Silman
  The Hallucinations Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine
  The Art of the Blunder in Chess by Vukovic
  Play Losing Chess by Seirawan
  Not My System by Nimzovich
  The Really Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by Wolff
  How to Beat Your Dog at Chess by Chandler
  Illogical Chess, Move By Move by Chernev
  Chess Openings for White, Unexplained by Marv Albert and GM Unpronounceablevili
  The Stoner's Mind by Silman
  The Least Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Chernev
  Chess Fundamentals: The Out-Takes by Capablanca
  Recent Developments in the 9. Bb5 Bongcloud by Lenny

   

  an the introduction is so serious...LOL

• by chess_kebabs

  one of the funniest forums around..

• by pauix

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  Simply awesome. A must-read for every chess enthusiast with sense of humour.

• by JosephRobertTrudeau

  wow... everyone who took this seriously must be new... ITS A JOKE.  look up lenny_bongcloud on chess.com and have a good laugh

• by Earthpeacekeeper

  THis is a variation of bongcloud opening which i call REST ROOM OPENING

• by madhatter5

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  hillarious!!!

• by dkujas

  I am very confused with this approach!!!

  I'm soon going to post a game during I tested this opening and which is obviously going to lead me to a quick defeat. All suggestions will be more than welcomed.

• by scottwm

  "I told you not to write the damn thing in VisualBasic"  awesome!!

  I love the style of writing and the phraseology.  "clearly winning", and "has no where else to go".  

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  Pretty sure I roomed with Lenny BongCloud in college.

• by jackbootgeneral

  ive been taking chess very seriously the last few months playing around the clock sometimes or atleast 10 hours a day. ive just waisted 3 hours copying this into a book without examining to closely at first what i was writing. i could not believe at first id been had and its messed up my chess book. shame aswell cause it looked exciting at first. il be more carefull now to read the reviews before i commit myself. not happy...

• by dewriat

  Wasn't this played in game 3 of the Anand world championship match?

• by hazeleyes

  There must have been some good stuff in that bong

• by Schackoo

  Here's the Fingerfehler-Bongclud for Black to enjoy:

  Btw, I had a good laugh too !

• by transience

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  It got a little tedious toward the end, but I had a good laugh.

• by PawnOfWar

  plaese... it's not a opening... it's a Alamo for the White...

• by Ocky

  This "guide" contains serious mistakes and obvious oversights...  It seems that instead of fabouring White, it results in its early destruction. 

  Page 13: after 9.Nf3! comes 9... Qxf3# Checkmate!

  Page 17: after 7.Kb5! comes 7... Qh3# Checkmate!!

  Page 22: I may be wrong, but it is very difficult to believe that the position resulting after 10.Kg3! is favourable for Black... "Nxh1 will trap the Black Knight and extinguish the threat" does not sound logical at all.

  Page 26: After 10.Kh3, Black surely will play 10... Nf2# Checkmate again!!! then, the paragraph after the last diagram is absolutely wrong. 

  Page 33: To pretend that the position in the diagram is advantageous for White sounds crazy to me.

  Page 35: If Black "assays 4... Qf6", and White plays "the logical Ke1" the result is that Black will play Qxf2# CHECKMATE AGAIN!!!!

  Enough for me!

• by sicktwist

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  As a sub-par player who has struggled but rarely understood this whole "chess" thing, I can say without reservation that the Bongcloud is a required element in any chess players arsenal.

• by Joe90

  Uh. I think there might be a little tongue in a little cheek...

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