Love Bird's Opening. I've won quite a few beautiful games against strong opponents who were denied their Sicilian lines. That fianchettoed bishop on b2 is brutal. Great Lasker game you provided.
That's great you've been having success with it - I as well love that Bb2 idea - as you said - brutal minor piece in kingside attacks. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
You got it Brian! Thanks for watching! I made a Bird's Opening video right about when I started TH-cam - but I'm thinking about making more in depth video which covers a bunch of different ideas.
Hello Solomon. Thanks for sharing this game. Hope viewers like it. I wonder how far ahead Lasker saw when he played Nh5. It's only after QxB 9 moves later that he regains material! On a completely different topic. Ever checked out 'chess boxing'? Apparently it's a real thing....and with your size.....🙂 maybe challenge Boston Mike 😃
Hey Andrew! Hope you have been well. Ya I wonder too if he saw all that when he played Nh5, my guess is that he did. And yes I have! I would love to do it. My dad was an amateur boxer and taught me the basics, and I obviously like chess. Unfortunately it's not too big in the U.S. right now, but I'd love to do it if the opportunity ever came up.
Thank you for posting this very interesting video. I have watched and enjoyed many of your videos. Many years ago, while in high school, for about 2 years, I had played chess about one day a week at a local chess club. Then I pretty much stopped playing chess for a very long time. I now live in Guatemala, and about 2 years ago, for about 9 months, I again found myself in a city that had a chess club, and that I started going to. I am now back to living in a very small village in Guatemala, with no decent chess players. But since the Guatemala chess club experience, I have been studying chess (mostly by just watching YT videos, not actually learning much theory). By experiment I have found that about the easiest way I can get through the opening into a playable middle game, is by playing 10 minute online games, fianchettoing one or both bishops, and keeping most of my pawns and pieces on my first 3 rows. I often end up with a hippo or double fianchetto like opening. I play this type of opening as both black and as white, and I can pretty much force this type of opening in every game I play. In the middle game, I am using the ideas in your videos, to understand how to attack king side and attack queen side, how to do pawn breaks, and other positional ideas. So it seems to me that as long as I am fianchettoing bishops, and keeping most of my pawns and pieces on my first 3 rows, no matter what the opening I play is called - hippo, kid, kia, bird's opening, owens defense, modern defense, pirc defense, etc., the same positions keep reappearing, and that as my rating increases, I should be developing a better sense of how to respond to white's moves, by transitioning to the best possible opening. But currently I see no need to study openings, because currently my games are being decided on blunders. And even though I make a lot of blunders, my opponents make even more blunders. Right now my biggest problem is losing on time. But each week I am playing faster, and I hope to learn to play much faster by figuring out a really good way to use the Woodpecker method. Note - 2 years ago, when I started going to the Guatemala chess club, I would estimate my rating was about 300. After going to the club for 9 months, I would estimate my rating was about 450. After beginning using my hippo, double fiachetto like opening, my rating went to about 600. After several months of using this type of hippo, double fiachetto like opening, my rating is now about 900.
Hey Allan, first off that is an awesome story, and keep it up! I have no doubt you will be breaking the 1000 milestone soon, let me know when you do! And ya those are all great chess openings, I myself have been playing the Owen's Defense a ton. You might also like the Crab Opening, very similar to the Hippo but with pawns on h4 and a4 (of a5 and h5 with black) to try and gain some space on the kingside and queenside. But hey, that's awesome bro. Keep it up. You're onto something here in that chess improvement isn't about memorizing lines, but really understanding how to play good chess! For time controls, if you want to get faster, maybe try out some 5 minute games so that you force yourself to use your intuition. Trust your gut! And then once you go back to 10 you will feel like you got all the time in the world. Blessings to you brotha!
Hey Nicholas! I actually just made a Bird's Opening video in which I cover my suggested response for white against the From's Gambit at the beginning of the video. Here it is! th-cam.com/video/YbX1l6qDSaE/w-d-xo.html
first: great video and second: as a bird player I need to say the Froms Gambit is really bad because the white player knows more theory in every single case.
Cool dude but why black don't just simply castling to the queen side?🤓 As white opening was just clearly mentioned that he wanna attack your king side from the beginning though
Usually it takes longer to castle queenside, so it means the black king will be a couple of moves in the middle of the board, and he risks being attacked there and staying in the middle forever. Castling kingside was accurate but he had to defend better.
Good question! Ya similar to what Victor said, usually black doesn't want to use all that time to castle queenside... and it's not like castling kingside is a mistake. Just got to defend better. If black does castle kingside or it looks like they might, we can always play moves like a4 and a5 and look to go all out because with our king's on opposite sides of the board, we have much less on the line.
@@emperorzurg7258 Great question! So ya there's two approaches. One is playing something like a3 to prevent the knight from jumping in. The other is to allow the Nb4 but then drop the Bishop back to e2. They made our bishop run, but then we will make their knight run right back with a3 and then Bd3 after the knight runs backwards. They make us run, we make them run, and we go back. Or, again you can just play a3 right out the gate. Up to you! (But you are 100% correct in not wanting to allow the knight to trade off for our bishop!) Hope this helps.
@@TheChessGiant okay, thanks for the answer! I love using the Bird as a surprise weapon, but never really couldn't decide myself between Be2 and Bg2. So I tried a bit this Bd3 variation, which is really sexy at first sight, but it seems to me that this variation requires a bit more of an attention to what your opponent proposes (I mean at least more than the other two).. In particular in a game I really got surprised by this Nb4 move and got an unpleasant middlegame. So thanks for the advise once again! Oh, and sorry if I did not simplify your first reading by annotating the knight with a 'K' ; English is not my mother tongue and for a second I forgot you write him with an N, haha.
Hey Clayton! I have never heard of this in my life but I just looked it up and this looks super fun! Excited to make a video on this thanks for the recommendation.
When it was played against me for the first time, I thought it was the worst possible thing that could be played against the Bird. Then I got spanked. The Hobbs Gambit is even more irritating than the Exchange French.
De un porte muy exuberante y al estilo de antes Y en la muñeca brilla un Rolex con diamantes Las llantas quemando y sirenas sonando Y por la ventanita el humo va tirando Suenan corridones, rugen los motores Y el respaldo que carga, ese es de los señores Con un cigarrito a gusto se pone Y siempre listo pa atender a sus misiones Y si hablamos de negocios, somos varios socios Allá en LA los miran en carros lujosos Junior por un lado, 10-7 en los radios Y en Rosarito ya los tienen ubicados Adonde que llegan saludan con señas Y lo respetan porque lleva buena escuela Lo que le ha inculcado su mamá y su abuela Andamos recio y así será aunque les duela Les metemos golecitos Gracias a Dios ya andamos bien y pasaditos Si ocupan paro, les brinco Y así como llegan se van los azulitos Su compa Óscar Maydon Compa Nata Y puros corridos tumbados, viejones, ¡eah! Ya muchos saben de mi vida y sobran las envidias Pero no me espanto, Dios es el que me cuida Vigilo el terreno, ya no tengo freno Pues saben que aquí nosotros somos los buenos Nos llueven los güeros, carácter sereno Ustedes saben que no les tenemos miedo Desde bien morrillo salí pa buscarle Salimos buenos para andar en este jale La navego en el refuego y con un dab despego Soy muy discreto en el jale que me navego Firmes con los que ando, en LA paseando Y por la ventanita el humo va tirando Suenan corridones, rugen los motores Y el respaldo que carga es el de los señores Con un cigarrito a gusto se pone Y siempre listo pa atender a las misiones Les metemos golecitos Gracias a Dios ya andamos bien y pasaditos Si ocupan paro, les brinco Y así como llegan se van los azulitos
What to Learn MORE about the Bird's Opening? Here is a link to my most in-depth video! th-cam.com/video/YbX1l6qDSaE/w-d-xo.html
When you play Ne5, do you generally not want to retake with fxe5?
Love Bird's Opening. I've won quite a few beautiful games against strong opponents who were denied their Sicilian lines. That fianchettoed bishop on b2 is brutal. Great Lasker game you provided.
That's great you've been having success with it - I as well love that Bb2 idea - as you said - brutal minor piece in kingside attacks. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
I always play the Bird as it allows me to decide what type of game will be played, denying any Sicilians
Another great video, thanks so much!
Thanks for watching!
Great video
Thanks Caleb! Happy you enjoyed it!
wow, couldn't believe that F4 has so much tactics, we'd love to see more
You got it! I love the Bird's Opening and would love to keep making content on it.
Thank you for the video, loved the idea of learning with a real game full of sacrifices.
You got it Brian! Thanks for watching! I made a Bird's Opening video right about when I started TH-cam - but I'm thinking about making more in depth video which covers a bunch of different ideas.
Nice! Thanks! 👍🏽🙏
Of course man! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello Solomon. Thanks for sharing this game. Hope viewers like it. I wonder how far ahead Lasker saw when he played Nh5. It's only after QxB 9 moves later that he regains material!
On a completely different topic. Ever checked out 'chess boxing'? Apparently it's a real thing....and with your size.....🙂 maybe challenge Boston Mike 😃
Hey Andrew! Hope you have been well. Ya I wonder too if he saw all that when he played Nh5, my guess is that he did. And yes I have! I would love to do it. My dad was an amateur boxer and taught me the basics, and I obviously like chess. Unfortunately it's not too big in the U.S. right now, but I'd love to do it if the opportunity ever came up.
Thank you for posting this very interesting video. I have watched and enjoyed many of your videos. Many years ago, while in high school, for about 2 years, I had played chess about one day a week at a local chess club. Then I pretty much stopped playing chess for a very long time. I now live in Guatemala, and about 2 years ago, for about 9 months, I again found myself in a city that had a chess club, and that I started going to. I am now back to living in a very small village in Guatemala, with no decent chess players. But since the Guatemala chess club experience, I have been studying chess (mostly by just watching YT videos, not actually learning much theory). By experiment I have found that about the easiest way I can get through the opening into a playable middle game, is by playing 10 minute online games, fianchettoing one or both bishops, and keeping most of my pawns and pieces on my first 3 rows. I often end up with a hippo or double fianchetto like opening. I play this type of opening as both black and as white, and I can pretty much force this type of opening in every game I play. In the middle game, I am using the ideas in your videos, to understand how to attack king side and attack queen side, how to do pawn breaks, and other positional ideas. So it seems to me that as long as I am fianchettoing bishops, and keeping most of my pawns and pieces on my first 3 rows, no matter what the opening I play is called - hippo, kid, kia, bird's opening, owens defense, modern defense, pirc defense, etc., the same positions keep reappearing, and that as my rating increases, I should be developing a better sense of how to respond to white's moves, by transitioning to the best possible opening. But currently I see no need to study openings, because currently my games are being decided on blunders. And even though I make a lot of blunders, my opponents make even more blunders. Right now my biggest problem is losing on time. But each week I am playing faster, and I hope to learn to play much faster by figuring out a really good way to use the Woodpecker method. Note - 2 years ago, when I started going to the Guatemala chess club, I would estimate my rating was about 300. After going to the club for 9 months, I would estimate my rating was about 450. After beginning using my hippo, double fiachetto like opening, my rating went to about 600. After several months of using this type of hippo, double fiachetto like opening, my rating is now about 900.
Hey Allan, first off that is an awesome story, and keep it up! I have no doubt you will be breaking the 1000 milestone soon, let me know when you do! And ya those are all great chess openings, I myself have been playing the Owen's Defense a ton. You might also like the Crab Opening, very similar to the Hippo but with pawns on h4 and a4 (of a5 and h5 with black) to try and gain some space on the kingside and queenside. But hey, that's awesome bro. Keep it up. You're onto something here in that chess improvement isn't about memorizing lines, but really understanding how to play good chess! For time controls, if you want to get faster, maybe try out some 5 minute games so that you force yourself to use your intuition. Trust your gut! And then once you go back to 10 you will feel like you got all the time in the world. Blessings to you brotha!
I would love to see your response to From’s Gambit👏👏great content
Hey Nicholas! I actually just made a Bird's Opening video in which I cover my suggested response for white against the From's Gambit at the beginning of the video. Here it is! th-cam.com/video/YbX1l6qDSaE/w-d-xo.html
Will check that,I recently destroyed someone with the Froms Gambit😬
Lasker-Bauer- a master piece!!
first: great video and second: as a bird player I need to say the Froms Gambit is really bad because the white player knows more theory in every single case.
I see nothing but straight facts here.
Studying this game has made me a demon at the humble bottom echelon of the elo hierarchy
I saw this video had 7k views and I knew this was exactly what I was looking for
Can’t complain about a birds video. Great as always
Glad you enjoyed it brotha!
tnx to you i started playing the birds opening as my main opening!
also: any literature reccomendations regarding the bird opening?
Of course! I am glad you've enjoyed them, more on the way! Honestly I am not sure on books - I will have to keep an eye out for that
Cool dude but why black don't just simply castling to the queen side?🤓 As white opening was just clearly mentioned that he wanna attack your king side from the beginning though
Usually it takes longer to castle queenside, so it means the black king will be a couple of moves in the middle of the board, and he risks being attacked there and staying in the middle forever. Castling kingside was accurate but he had to defend better.
Good question! Ya similar to what Victor said, usually black doesn't want to use all that time to castle queenside... and it's not like castling kingside is a mistake. Just got to defend better. If black does castle kingside or it looks like they might, we can always play moves like a4 and a5 and look to go all out because with our king's on opposite sides of the board, we have much less on the line.
I second this Victor!
@@TheChessGiant cheers my friend!
I suppose that if Black responds to Bd3 with Kc6, we have to push the a pawn in order to prevent Kb4?
Hey! Could you send me a timestamp so I know exactly where you're talking about? Thanks!
@@TheChessGiant hi! Sure, 2:40.
@@emperorzurg7258 Great question! So ya there's two approaches. One is playing something like a3 to prevent the knight from jumping in. The other is to allow the Nb4 but then drop the Bishop back to e2. They made our bishop run, but then we will make their knight run right back with a3 and then Bd3 after the knight runs backwards. They make us run, we make them run, and we go back. Or, again you can just play a3 right out the gate. Up to you! (But you are 100% correct in not wanting to allow the knight to trade off for our bishop!) Hope this helps.
@@TheChessGiant okay, thanks for the answer! I love using the Bird as a surprise weapon, but never really couldn't decide myself between Be2 and Bg2. So I tried a bit this Bd3 variation, which is really sexy at first sight, but it seems to me that this variation requires a bit more of an attention to what your opponent proposes (I mean at least more than the other two).. In particular in a game I really got surprised by this Nb4 move and got an unpleasant middlegame. So thanks for the advise once again!
Oh, and sorry if I did not simplify your first reading by annotating the knight with a 'K' ; English is not my mother tongue and for a second I forgot you write him with an N, haha.
How about the Hobbs Gambit?
Hey Clayton! I have never heard of this in my life but I just looked it up and this looks super fun! Excited to make a video on this thanks for the recommendation.
When it was played against me for the first time, I thought it was the worst possible thing that could be played against the Bird. Then I got spanked. The Hobbs Gambit is even more irritating than the Exchange French.
De un porte muy exuberante y al estilo de antes
Y en la muñeca brilla un Rolex con diamantes
Las llantas quemando y sirenas sonando
Y por la ventanita el humo va tirando
Suenan corridones, rugen los motores
Y el respaldo que carga, ese es de los señores
Con un cigarrito a gusto se pone
Y siempre listo pa atender a sus misiones
Y si hablamos de negocios, somos varios socios
Allá en LA los miran en carros lujosos
Junior por un lado, 10-7 en los radios
Y en Rosarito ya los tienen ubicados
Adonde que llegan saludan con señas
Y lo respetan porque lleva buena escuela
Lo que le ha inculcado su mamá y su abuela
Andamos recio y así será aunque les duela
Les metemos golecitos
Gracias a Dios ya andamos bien y pasaditos
Si ocupan paro, les brinco
Y así como llegan se van los azulitos
Su compa Óscar Maydon
Compa Nata
Y puros corridos tumbados, viejones, ¡eah!
Ya muchos saben de mi vida y sobran las envidias
Pero no me espanto, Dios es el que me cuida
Vigilo el terreno, ya no tengo freno
Pues saben que aquí nosotros somos los buenos
Nos llueven los güeros, carácter sereno
Ustedes saben que no les tenemos miedo
Desde bien morrillo salí pa buscarle
Salimos buenos para andar en este jale
La navego en el refuego y con un dab despego
Soy muy discreto en el jale que me navego
Firmes con los que ando, en LA paseando
Y por la ventanita el humo va tirando
Suenan corridones, rugen los motores
Y el respaldo que carga es el de los señores
Con un cigarrito a gusto se pone
Y siempre listo pa atender a las misiones
Les metemos golecitos
Gracias a Dios ya andamos bien y pasaditos
Si ocupan paro, les brinco
Y así como llegan se van los azulitos
Fian'ketto' not 'chetto '