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Ruben Cristobal vs Jorge Rosito
ch. Mar del Plata Mayor (1999), 5s
Bird Opening: From Gambit. Lasker Variation (A02)  ·  1-0

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Sep-19-03  suenteus po 147: Is it me, or is 6...f5 the big mistake here? Usually White has a challenging time making Bird's Opening work, and it seems like after this move white is just running the board around black. Wouldn't 6...f6 force the knight to the center and then followed by 7...Bf5 give control of the center to black? Any thoughts?
Nov-19-04  Knight13: Very Nice way to treat From's Gambit.
Nov-19-04  drukenknight: have you ever seen anybody play 2 d4 in this?
Nov-19-04  Knight13: <drunkenknight> I play 2. d4 a lot in Bird's Opening. And, no, I've never seen people play Bird's Opening, yet. It is a very good way to play chess, but it traps the dark square bishop as well. <1. f4 d5 2. d4 e6 3. e3 Nf6>.
Nov-19-04  drukenknight: I was thinking: 1 f4 e5 2 d4 have you ever seen that? It seemed to be a lot stronger than the gambit stuff w/ fxe5..
Nov-20-04  Knight13: <drunkenknight> No. I've never see that. I don't think it is a good idea to play the Bird's Opening that way. It plays like King's Gambit after Black takes the f4 pawn.
Jan-26-07  Themofro: <Suenteus po 147> no, ...6 f5 is not a big mistake. After 7 e4 h6 white usually plays 8.Nh3. A knight sacrifice which leads to a very complicated structure after ...8 gxf3 9. Qh5+ Kf8
10. Bc4 or 10.e5. This is a very sharp position and was for ages considered to be a sound sacrifice for white, I personally am +7=2-1 with it. However a refutation has been found, i beleive it's 16 moves deep or something like that. I don't have it avialable to me as i type this, i'll try to post it sometime. Now, while there is a refutation it is even today virtually unknown except to all but Bird's players and specialists, which you will never play against as black, 99.9% of the time. So you can almost always count on black not knowing it. I used to play this variation against the Lasker but lately i've switched to 5. g3 g5 6.Nh4 then if ...6 Be7 simply Ng2 with a comfortable edge, and if black plays ...6 Ne7 ( a Speilman idea i believe, to play Ng6 and open the h file) then 7.d4 Ng6 8. Nxg6! (simple and strong) hxg6 and 9. Qd3! avoiding all of blacks traps, such as ...Rxh2 Rxh2 Bxg3+ and black wins back the pawn with advantage. I beleive that this way against the Lasker is the strongest.

In short,black's move f5 is the book move and basically forces white to sac a knight into a refuted line, but again no one knows it, so still playable for white. Althouh i personallywould go with g3 instead of d4 in reply to the Lasker.

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