Sorry, but Lucena beat you to 1 f4 by 600 years.
It was championed by the English master Henry Bird in the 19th Century, and is usually called "Bird's Opening."
I didn't find it on the database, but thank you.
Does it include the same moves?
I would also like to know what do you think of this opening.
imo the biggest problem with the bird is the g3 square. I tend to get a lot of play against that square as black. But its not a tragic opening or anything.
This is not the bird opening, it's a variation of it.
And thanks for the advice, i'm continuing to develop this variation :)
But now it's at good shape, i'd say, and i would like to hear your feedback of this.
I played two games, and lost both although in the second game i made a blunder and lost my queen..
I were 1 pawn ahead tho and a good attack going on.
I also had almost a mate even after i lost my queen, but he handled it.
What you played was just a main line Bird until your opponent deviated with c5 (g6 is more common), later I think you may have transposed into some form of the esoteric mujannah variation/Reverse Dutch Stonewall hybrid. The reason you wouldn't have found many games on the database is that it is not that popular - 1.f4 weakens the e1-h4 diagonal, and allows the possibility of Fromm's Gambit (1.e4), which contains many pitfalls for White should he not be familiar with the opening. However, Black has many possible responses such as 1.d5, 1.c5, 1.g6, 1.b6, 1.Nf6, etc. 1.f4 puts little pressure on Black, and he can generally develop as he wishes.
imo the biggest problem with the bird is the g3 square. I tend to get a lot of play against that square as black. But its not a tragic opening or anything.
This is not the bird opening, it's a variation of it.
And thanks for the advice, i'm continuing to develop this variation :)
But now it's at good shape, i'd say, and i would like to hear your feedback of this.
This is not the Bird's Opening, this is a variation? It's a variation in the Bird's Opening, therefore the opening is the Bird's Opening. What you are saying is like someone saying after 1.e4 c5 2.c3 that it's not the Sicilian, it's a variation of the Sicilian, incidentally called the c3 Sicilian, simply because the main line, Nf3 was not played. No - in that case, as is the case here, the variation still belongs to the 'original' opening.
What you have is not a new opening, but a novelty on move six after Black has opted for some substandard moves. 4...Nc6 is better.
I usually enjoy the games I get when my opp opens with the bird, not because my position is so great or anything, but because it jsut tends to be fun and interesitng positions. I could definately understand someone loving the bird opening :) But i personally would rather play stuff where im a little more likely to get some sort of advantage out of the opening
I second this idea.
Eh, that's an opening line known as the, "Bird's opening"
I like the opening, does it always finish with the checkmate?
What are you doing posting that here, it's quite valious, and it's quite risky the exposure.
Ok. Keep this "sub rosa":
Before a major tournment some GMs arrived at a hotel. A man came to Kasparov and said, "I have solved chess!".So we all went to Kasparovs room and he played against him, and after a queer combination, the man won in twelve moves. Kasparov played again, this time with a different opening and again he lost in twelve moves!! He called in Karpov to play the man, and he too lost in twelve moves. Other GMs were called in and in turn all lost, again in twelve moves.
It was terrible and embarrassing.Whatever we did, we always lost in twelve moves. It was all over, chess has been solved......
....Luckily we found solution....
.we killed him ;).
I like the opening, does it always finish with the checkmate?
What are you doing posting that here, it's quite valious, and it's quite risky the exposure.
No, but the main goal is to build up huge amount of pressure to black's kingside while his pieces are in the queenside, possibly opening up a strong attack on the enemy king and ending up with a checkmate or good endgame.
Sorry, but Lucena beat you to 1 f4 by 600 years.
It was championed by the English master Henry Bird in the 19th Century, and is usually called "Bird's Opening."
He's right... I play the birds opening and I won a game with it.
Yeah^^
Thanks for bumping btw lol
