How to play bad openings.

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Just explanations on how to play openings like the Grob's opening, Barnes opening, Bird's opening, Borg defense, Polish defense, stuff like that.

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Bird's opening is not a bad opening. It is sound and leads to a reversed Dutch defense

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PotatoesAndChess wrote:

Bird's opening is not a bad opening. It is sound and leads to a reversed Dutch defense

I just meant openings considered dubious or are just bad in general.

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The bird's opening is not considered dubious

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PotatoesAndChess wrote:

The bird's opening is not considered dubious

I feel like if I continue this it's just gonna become controversial so just... I've legitimately played the bird's opening at my chess club.

Avatar of Refrigerator321

oh ok

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For me who plays silly openings occasionally (My favorite being the Fried Fox Defense) Developing normally is literally the best you can do, If you play your cards right you'll be completely on par with your opponent...

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simple: don’t (unless your name is Hikaru Nakamura)

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PotatoesAndChess wrote:

The bird's opening is not considered dubious

Actually, in databases, White has one of the lowest scores of all with 1.f4. At least offbeat lines like 1.b4 score just over 50%

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What database are you looking at? Because according to Lichess, the most well-respected database in the chess community, f4 has a better score than e4. By your logic, e4 is garbage and everyone should stop playing it.

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OTB databases. I would guess chessbase or something.

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Why not the bongcloud ? ☁️

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I see these types of openings are based on square control. For instance the Birds for me is dark square control priority as White f4, b3, Nf3, Bb2, e3, Bb5, aim to control or pressurize the dark squares. And sometimes some light square action with c4 d3