Birds' Opening

Move by Move

Cyrus Lakdawala

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781781942505

This series provides an ideal platform to study chess openings. By continually challenging the reader to answer probing questions throughout the book, the Move by Move format greatly encourages the learning and practicing of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of opening knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study any chess opening and at the same time improve your general chess skills and knowledge. Bird's Opening, 1 f4, is an ideal choice for freethinking chess players who prefer to rely on their general chess knowledge and intuition rather than having to memorize and keep up to date with mainline opening theory. Bird's Opening is essentially the Dutch Defense with an extra move, and White can choose between a number of different set-ups, including the reversed Leningrad, Classical and Stonewall variations, depending on mood and opponents' responses. In this book, International Master Cyrus Lakdawala examines all the important variations of Bird's Opening, including the sharp From's Gambit. Using illustrative games, he explains the main positional and tactical ideas for both sides, provides answers to all the key questions and tells you everything you need to know about successfully playing 1 f4. ·Essential guidance and training with 1 f4 ·Provides a repertoire options for White ·Utilizes an ideal approach to chess study

Table of contents

• About the author
• Series Foreword
• Bibliography
• Introduction
• 1 From’s Gambit
• 2 Reversed Leningrad Dutch
• 3 Classical Bird and Fianchetto lines
• 4 The Stonewall Bird
• 5 ... Bg4 and ... Bf5 Setups
• 6 Bird’s versus Reversed English Setups
• 7 Bird’s versus Owen’s Defence, 1 ... f5 and 1 ... d6
• Index of Games
• Abdulla.A-Hossain.E, Bangladesh Championships, Dhaka 2008
• Andreassen.E-Mori.A, Correspondence 2007
• Arkell.K-Lalic.S, London 1988
• Baker.B-Bryant.J, San Diego (rapid) 2007
• Baranowski.T-Bortnik.E, Correspondence 2004
• Bartel.M-Shen.Y, Moscow Aeroflot Open 2009
• Basman.M-Tal.M, Hastings 1973
• Bird.H-Paulsen.L, Nuremberg 1883
• Bohn.T-Perrin.G, German League, 2004
• Danielsen.H-Luther.T, Petermaennchen GM Tournament, Schwerin 1999
• Dimitrov.P-Stojanovic.A, Festival Open, Bled 2008
• Fries Nielsen.N-Nielsen.P, Danish Championship, Aarhus 1981
• Grunberg.M-Jiroveanu.G, Revelion Open, Romania 1999
• Heidrich.M-Wernert.W, Germany 2004
• Jakubiec.A-Kondopoulos.D, Krakow Malopolski-chA 2013
• Jakubiec.A-Kraemer.M, German League 2003
• Jakubiec.A-Moiseenko.A, Warsaw 2007
• Karlsson.L-Bentsen.H, Gausdal Byggern Masters 2005
• Karlsson.L-Berg.E, Taby Open, Sweden 1991
• Korchnoi.V-Karpov.A, World Ch. Final (Game 11), Baguio City 1978
• Kovacevic.B-Godena.M, European Championship, Kusadasi 2006
• Kramnik.V-Oratovsky.M, USSR 1990
• Kuzmicz.K-Klein.D, BDO Chess Tournament, Haarlem 2012
• Lakdawala.C-Arutyunov.N, San Diego (rapid) 2014
• Lakdawala.C-Ivanov.I, Los Angeles Open 1999
• Lakdawala.C-Singh.G, San Diego (rapid) 2014
• Larsen.B-Keene.R, Teeside 1972
• Malaniuk.V-Humeau.C, Corsica Masters Open, Bastia 2009
• McShane.L-Khalifman.A, Drammen Smartfish Masters 2005
• Melnikov.D-Kazakovskiy.V, Chigorin Memorial, St Petersburg 2013
• Moosavian.S-Alavi Moghaddam.S, World Univ. Ch. , Novokuznetsk 2008
• Movsesian.S-Baklan.V, European Championship, Plovdiv 2008