Upgrade to Chess.com Premium!

Win Using Bird Opening

Jump to forum:
 
25th July 2009, 02:18pm
#1
by Velocity
Coral Gables United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 399

Hello all. Just won a game using the Bird Opening; I would greatly appreciate if some analysis could be sent my way on any inaccuracies, blunders, etc., that I made so that I can improve later.

26th July 2009, 08:46pm
#2
by clizaw
Nashville, TN United States
Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 53

Well I don't feel like analyzing the whole game right now but after glancing through it I think that your second move 2. Nf3 was a miscalculation because if your opponent had played 2...Bg4 I think it would have hurt your positioning. However, you seem to position your pieces well and your patience paid off. I've noticed that players are more likely to blunder online because they just get impatient with the game, so maybe that's what happened here.

26th July 2009, 08:50pm
#3
by ilikeflags
downton abbey England
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 11280

if he doesn't hang his knight this is a totally different game.  but as it is, good job.

27th July 2009, 06:15am
#4
by Velocity
Coral Gables United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 399
clizaw wrote:

Well I don't feel like analyzing the whole game right now but after glancing through it I think that your second move 2. Nf3 was a miscalculation because if your opponent had played 2...Bg4 I think it would have hurt your positioning. However, you seem to position your pieces well and your patience paid off. I've noticed that players are more likely to blunder online because they just get impatient with the game, so maybe that's what happened here.


In that sort of position, after 1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 Bg4, White plays e3 and the game tends to enter a Stonewall variation, a game with which I am somewhat familiar and fairly comfortable playing.

27th July 2009, 12:21pm
#5
by Cerdog
Somewhere United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2008
Member Points: 37

(for the record, I was the opponent for this game)

Looking back, although I may be wrong, 8. d4 loses the pawn because of Bxf3 Bxf3 and after taking the d4 pawn (whether or not the B and N are exchanged) the Bishop can take the f4 pawn.

27th July 2009, 12:48pm
#6
by rich
United Kingdom
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 27854

I won this game with the birds opening, I am white of course}.

 

Add your comment:

Join Chess.com for free to add your comment! Already a member? Then login now to comment.