Bongcloud Opening Book

oh and remember the top ten reasons to play this opening

My top ten

10. you hate standard openings

9. you want to play a true Kings Gambit

8. you play NN

7. Your opponent has a rating of a tooth brush(340, it beat my brother, before that it was rated 53)

6. you listen to to much Blue Oyster Cult

5. The title you have seems to be Mr. or Ms. or Mrs. and not CM NM IM GM WGM or the like

4. you feel that by emulating Lenny_Bongcloud the chess gods will impart some exerstencial knowledge upon your mortal brain

3. the Latvian Gambit is a "safe opening"( you want to play an opening that requires a person to grow a pair)

2. The Nf3 sicillian is to common, instead you listen to Bobby Fischer( as played on the ICC)

1. You are a red neck(sorry Jeff Foxworthy)

Conquistador, if you still have the intention of finalizing this, please accept my proposal to include a Fischer Variation

as played in this game on the ICC between a very strong player (probably Bobby Fish) and a GM

chess.com should set up a bongcloud chess variation where the first player to get the king across the board actually wins

lmao brilliant suggestion.

its so funny how the other side is trying to check you and get your pieces but all you care about is getting the king across

I have a question.  Does this game qualify as performance art? 

 The Bongcloud is very solid once all of black's pieces are eliminated.

Hehe. Maybe :)

"Winning with the Bongcloud" by A.Fabbro is indeed one of the best chess books ever written. The only annoying detail is the lack of coverage of the enterprising 1.e4 d5 2.exd5!?(2.Ke2 is also good) Qxd5 3.Ke2!, the delayed scandinavian Bongcloud. It's a pity because the uninformed bongcloud player might find himsefl playing a lame move such as 3.Nc3 instead of throwing yet another deadly opening idea on his opponent.

Unfortunately due to the requirement of getting one's King to the otherside, checkmate is a draw, and it is actualy good for Black to force a draw due to the commonly used tournoment rule that claims Black advances in the case of a draw

I tought under bongcloud rules checkmate is condidered a loss.

well since niether player got thier king to the otherside, and since one player cannot move thier king it is drawn.

Af far as i know the rule is that checkmate loses. Otherwise if would be too easy to force a draw :) I think that a few online bongcloud tournaments have been held here on chess.com and the usual setting was that the checkmaters got eliminated manually from the tournament by the organizer to let the players who were playing under bongcloud rules advance.

well then there is a code of Honor thing that we had to do, thats why Chess.com needs to set it up as a variant

also I play by the checkmate= loss until the rule is officialy changed, so you don't have to worry about me being a little crazy.

conquistador, please write a book on these wonderful openings!

well finish the BCO atleast. It needs to be, with an Edit on the Polish Counter Bong

Its Kc3 not Nc3

Mixed-up Bongcloud:

Impressive! This takes getting to the otheir side to a new level (on several different levels).