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Henry Bird vs John Wisker
London m (1873), London ENG, May-19
Bird Opening: Dutch Variation (A03)  ·  1-0

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Jul-30-04  fred lennox: Bird was the first player to master the Stonewall and broke new grounds along this line. One appeal it had for Bird is that it favored the knight over the bishop and rook. Admirable is the positioning of the heavy pieces so when the Stonewall breaks through, they come to life.
Jul-30-04  Knight13: This is a great game.
Aug-07-06  ganstaman: I know I'm 2 years late in this but... I have often thought that the Stonewall (either for white with 1.f4 or 1.d4 or for black in the Dutch) <favored the knight over the bishop and rook>, but it's nice to hear someone else say it too. I have often accidentally lost the exchange to Nf6-g4-e3, forking my unmoved queen on d1 and my castled rook on f1. When this happpens, I usually win, because as we're saying, the knights are actually more useful than the rooks. It gives me a better middlegame where I can make up for the slight material deficit.

You'd think that I'd eventually see the threat of ...Ne3 and prevent it, but usually I don't realize it somehow. Maybe it's because I see how it works for me, so I subconsciously want it to happen?

Or I've just been getting lucky and <fred lennox> is wrong too. Thoughts?

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