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Jon Boedvarsson vs Fridrik Olafsson
Iceland 1947  ·  Bird Opening: From Gambit (A02)  ·  0-1
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-19-04
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  Dillinger: Why isn't this in the list of quickest games?
Sep-02-04  Knight13: If this is the Bird's Opening, I need to watch out.
Sep-01-05
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  fudge: <Knight13>, from what I've seen from Bird's games, the safest way to play the <Bird's Opening> is not to use it at all!
Sep-01-05
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  aw1988: <fudge> No offense, but your avatar is seriously scaring me...
Sep-01-05
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  WannaBe: <aw1988> It's not as bad as having a wolf staring you down. :-0
Sep-01-05
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  aw1988: Shudder.
Sep-03-05
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  fudge: <aw1988> It scares me too, but the shock value is good for my concentration :)
Sep-03-05  Halldor: For some reasons this game isn't in Ólafsson's book of his 50 best attacking games...!
Sep-03-05
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  Averageguy: This trap usually runs 4...g5 5.h3 Bg3#
Feb-08-06
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  McCool: That is just pathetic.
Jan-26-08
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  fm avari viraf: A patzer or a Blindness?
Jan-26-08  pawnofdoom: Olafsson was 12 when he played this. If Boedvarsson was a good enough player to play the Birds opening, then he should have known better than to ever play h3.
May-28-08  number 23 NBer: Being a Bird-er myself, I can proudly say that I have never fallen into this sort of trap. However, I also have lost almost all my games where I took the e5-pawn anyway.
Jul-21-10  jbtigerwolf: I think that if White does not play 5.h3, he will probably win, as he has lost his f-pawn for both Black's central pawns.

Black should win when White plays 1.f4. It's surprising that "I've lost almost all my games where I took the e5-pawn anyway".. that is in itself almost a full refutation of 1.f4.

So if you don't take the e5 pawn, what then? I'll have a bit of a play, but it's long odds that I'll adopt this dubious opening... stokes the curiousity!

Feb-17-13  clownface: Dbl Pawn Bishop Ac
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