Famous italian player Greco Greco vs NN, 1620  (A02) Bird's Opening, 10 moves, 1-0 Howard Staunton Staunton vs E Williams, 1851  (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0 Adolf Anderssen...romantic genius Anderssen vs Kolisch, 1861  (A02) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 1-0 Bird plays the reversed from's gambit 1.f4 f5 2.e4!? Bird vs Gelbfuhs, 1873  (A02) Bird's Opening, 15 moves, 1-0 Chigorin...practical genius Chigorin vs Sellman, 1883  (A02) Bird's Opening, 30 moves, 1-0 lasker's famous double bishop sac Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889  (A03) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 1-0 Lasker...longest running world champion...loses to the Bird's Bird vs Lasker, 1892  (A03) Bird's Opening, 102 moves, 1-0 Lasker's revenge....From's gambit / Lasker variation Bird vs Lasker, 1892  (A02) Bird's Opening, 42 moves, 0-1 Henry "The Black Death" Blackburne gives Bird the Bird Blackburne vs Bird, 1892  (A02) Bird's Opening, 46 moves, 1-0 Bird vs B Vergani, 1895   (A02) Bird's Opening, 42 moves, 1-0 Albin vs Mieses, 1903 (A03) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1-0 Yurevich vs M Lowtzky, 1903  (A03) Bird's Opening, 53 moves, 1-0 Chigorin vs Spielmann, 1907  (A03) Bird's Opening, 53 moves, 1-0 NN vs Marshall, 1908  (A02) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 1-0 Tarakower plays the Bird Tartakower vs C Jaffe, 1911  (A02) Bird's Opening, 40 moves, 1-0 Tartakower vs Marshall, 1914  (A02) Bird's Opening, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2 Capablanca vs R Portela, 1913  (A03) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 1-0 Alekhine vs NN, 1925 (A02) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1-0 Nimzowitsch vs Kmoch, 1927  (A03) Bird's Opening, 33 moves, 1-0 F Bohatirchuk vs V Makogonov, 1927  (A03) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1-0 A Brinckmann vs Tartakower, 1927 (A02) Bird's Opening, 68 moves, 1-0 Capablanca vs I Turover, 1931  (A03) Bird's Opening, 65 moves, 1-0 A young Korchnoi uses the Bird to beat a strong player Korchnoi vs G Goldberg, 1950  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0 Larsen vs G Fuster, 1958  (A02) Bird's Opening, 33 moves, 1-0 Larsen beats World Champion Petrosian Larsen vs Petrosian, 1958  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0 Larsen vs S From, 1963  (A02) Bird's Opening, 44 moves, 1-0 F Bohatirchuk vs A Kalotay, 1964  (A02) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 1-0 Larsen beats World Champion Spassky Larsen vs Spassky, 1964  (A03) Bird's Opening, 60 moves, 1-0 Larsen vs Gligoric, 1966  (A02) Bird's Opening, 66 moves, 1-0 Larry Evans vs E Paoli, 1967  (A03) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0 Ekenberg vs Ulf Andersson, 1969 (A02) Bird's Opening, 63 moves, 1-0 Bobby Fischer beats World Champion Smyslov Fischer vs Smyslov, 1970  (A02) Bird's Opening, 64 moves, 1-0 Bronstein vs F Visier Segovia, 1972 (A03) Bird's Opening, 55 moves, 1-0 Unorthodox fan M Basman draws against World Champion Tal M Basman vs Tal, 1973  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1/2-1/2 N Davies vs P Jamieson, 1975  (A02) Bird's Opening, 35 moves, 1-0 Romanishin vs Kasparov, 1976  (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 0-1 Bronstein vs Trzaska Peter, 1991 (A03) Bird's Opening, 42 moves, 1-0 "The Alterman Wall" B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000  (A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0 Blatny vs J Kraai, 2001  (A02) Bird's Opening, 25 moves, 1-0 Granda-Zuniga vs Beliavsky, 2002  (A02) Bird's Opening, 54 moves, 1-0 A Jakubiec vs Schmaltz, 2002 (A02) Bird's Opening, 68 moves, 1-0 A Jakubiec vs K Kuzmicz, 2003 (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0 S Von Freymann vs Rubinstein, 1912   (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0 S Von Freymann vs Bogoljubov, 1913  (A02) Bird's Opening, 22 moves, 1-0 Alekhine gets an inferior game out of the opening Pelikan vs Alekhine, 1936 (A02) Bird's Opening, 46 moves, 1/2-1/2 One of Tarrasch's best games in any opening Tarrasch vs Allies, 1914   (A03) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 1-0 A Yam vs Shirov, 2005  (A03) Bird's Opening, 39 moves, 0-1 Ljubojevic vs C Zuidema, 1972 (A03) Bird's Opening, 19 moves, 1-0 V Malaniuk vs H Hamdouchi, 1997 (A03) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0 S Williams vs Harikrishna, 2002 (A03) Bird's Opening, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2 S Buecker vs Suetin, 1990  (A03) Bird's Opening, 49 moves, 1-0 Romanishin vs Kasparov, 1976  (A03) Bird's Opening, 18 moves, 1/2-1/2 Modern battle between two world class players Aronian vs Topalov, 2006  (A03) Bird's Opening, 51 moves, 1-0 Mikhail Gurevich..Dutch defense expert plays the reverse dutch M Gurevich vs Gelfand, 1989  (A03) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1/2-1/2 M Gurevich vs H Pehlivanlar, 2006 (A03) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0 Henrik Danielsen...strongest 1.f4 player in recent times H Danielsen vs O Salmensuu, 1997  (A03) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs P H Nielsen, 2001 (A02) Bird's Opening, 25 moves, 0-1 H Danielsen vs L Schandorff, 2001  (A03) Bird's Opening, 55 moves, 0-1 H Danielsen vs J A Nilssen, 2004 (A03) Bird's Opening, 34 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs C Hansen, 2005 (A03) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2 H Danielsen vs S B Hansen, 2005  (A02) Bird's Opening, 27 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs A Ismagambetov, 2006  (A02) Bird's Opening, 53 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs M Tandrup, 2005  (A03) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs B Thorfinnsson, 2006 (A02) Bird's Opening, 46 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs J Gunnarsson, 2006  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0 H Danielsen vs P Ricardi, 2006 (A03) Bird's Opening, 49 moves, 1-0 This is why you don't play 1.f4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.b3?! Nimzowitsch vs L Steiner, 1927  (A03) Bird's Opening, 28 moves, 0-1 Tartakower vs Reti, 1914  (A03) Bird's Opening, 50 moves, 1-0 Bird vs J Mason, 1889   (A03) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 1-0 Bird's Opening Scandinavian defense with extra f4 move Short vs Timman, 2002 (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 22 moves, 1/2-1/2 Magnus Carlsen game K Lie vs Carlsen, 2007  (A02) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 0-1 B Amin vs D Rombaldoni, 2008 (A03) Bird's Opening, 37 moves, 1-0 L Kritz vs P Prohaszka, 2008 (A03) Bird's Opening, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2 From's Gambit declined H Danielsen vs Pokorna, 2003  (A02) Bird's Opening, 60 moves, 1-0