I haven't encountered it in rapid.
Why is everyone doing the Bird opening?
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Carlsen plays it occasionally
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1899448
The Bird Opening is "for the birds", lol...
XOXOXOexpert wrote:
I haven't encountered it in rapid.
I've seen it a couple times today in blitz. I don't recall seeing it that much before today.
tygxc wrote:
Carlsen plays it occasionally
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1899448
Huh. I wonder if he had a game recently where he played it.
lemaudit1 wrote:
The Bird Opening is "for the birds", lol...
Sounds like it is weak overall? I like to play blitz and on the wiki page it says that it allows white several opportunities to attack. Amybe just good for shorter increments.
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"Amybe just good for shorter increments."
++ It is a Dutch Defence reversed, i.e. with an extra tempo.
Could just be your luck. Don’t try to explain something you see a number of times in a row. There are too many players from all over the world for this to be explainable by something like a video.
Drawgood wrote:
Could just be your luck. Don’t try to explain something you see a number of times in a row. There are too many players from all over the world for this to be explainable by something like a video.
A lot of people watch chess videos and the algorithm on youtube will push certain videos. Or popular channels will have a video on certain gambits like the stafford gambit for example. I have had people do the same gambit to me repeatedly before over the course of a couple days and when I search it a popular channel will have just posted a video about it.
Drawgood wrote:
Could just be your luck. Don’t try to explain something you see a number of times in a row. There are too many players from all over the world for this to be explainable by something like a video.
but yes I do see people making this error in other cases.
Was there some video about it on a popular channel recently?