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I'm having a blast playing Bird's Opening with white. Not a lot of theory, can be aggressive or defensive, and most opponents my level see 1. f4 and go, "What the heck??". I still have work to do with memorizing when to play key ideas, but I'm already at a 47% win rate in 18 games so I'm excited about the future.
One of the best games I've played so far. I've already analyzed it so I thought I'd showcase it.

Nice game @Flan will be proud of you

This game was good, quite literally the engine review gave the most common rating for "good" with 6 (5 Excellent, 4 best and 4 book, 1 inaccuracy and 1 miss). Never seen that before so thought I'd share, it's also a nice little Italian.

"Good" game

100.0 game review

Up to 8. d5 is my opening line and managed to solve it from there, a few obvious moves helps. Only 16 moves long and ends in a bishop blunder but still very happy!

Wow! 100.0 is crazy! I only got that in the fried liver lol

I was cheering for white for playing the Evans gambit until white lost and I realised you were playing black lol

I used to hate playing against the Evans Gambit but it's slowly becoming something that I feel rather comfortable seeing. Even had an OTB rapid game against it this year (I think I posted it on the forums before) that ended in a rather nice checkmate.

I'll likely switch back to 3.Nf6 at some point but I view it as a choice between facing Evans or fried liver and seem to be better against the Evans for now.

Been tempted to learn it for myself as a surprise weapon at the club as well, although its a little far down my to do list.

bishops might be better than knights generally speaking, but knights are so tricky

In addition to "playing against Evans" I can show some simple plans for black

So you have completely refuted the Evans Gambit

As an Evans lover myself, I have been refuted many times

So here, I was playing a 3+2 match and i decided to blunder on my first move - No im not joking - LITERAL FIRST MOVE.... This game, that turned out to be a Game of 400 at the start turned out to be one of the MOST RARE CHESS GAME ever which features the RAREST BRILLIANT MOVE followed by a Big Blunder.... This is one of my BEST and WORST games ever.....

Here it is-

So, as you can see, I BLUNDER ON THE FIRST MOVE and then I play like a 400 after which I play THE RAREST BRILLIANT MOVE - CASTLE followed by a BIG BLUNDER

In 1700 games on Chess.com, the best game I've ever played. My opponent probably reported me for cheating lol. 91% accuracy. I added some analysis to give you a peek into my chess brain.

Great game! The Caro is so much fun! It is the opening I also play against 1. e4.

@JJ0268 Thank you! Yeah it was a blast.

Here's another one....

This is a game where I was determined to get a brilliant move and still got none😂 Instead, i got so many mistakes that you cannot even count them🤣

The game started out with an opening that idk why I was playing.... And then, I decided to sacrifice some (too many) pawns in order to attack the king followed by giving up every single piece until i had none left😂😂😂

Here it is-

I don't even know what to say about this one, I feel like this is an even worse game than the scholars checkmate and the fools mate - Im just giving up everything!

The rook and knight sacrifice was just too good

Just had this fantastic game against in the usually boring four knights as I slowly recover my blitz rating (some games played with a hangover and plenty of others unfocused will do that! ).

This game was so clean and felt like I was always having new ideas throughout for this really clean win. That mindset when the chess moves come naturally feels so good, if only it could happen more consistently .

Another OTB league game (80+10). 2 games in and 2 wins. This was such a chaotic Italian with a fair few misplays such as going for Nxh6 without considering Bxh6. This did lead to a game full of tension before the breakthrough was finally made. Last few moves made down to a few minutes on the clock. Ended up with only 3 minutes left on the clock against around 22 (I think). At the worst it was around 15 against 45 as I spent my time trying to find the best way around the complications.

This game was all about the power of the Italian Bishop and the threats it generated. This is the sort of game that is so fun to play and well worth an taking a full evening to do so.