A02: Bird's opening

1. f4

Bird's opening

A02 Sub-variants:

Bird's opening
1. f4

Bird, From gambit
1. f4 e5

Bird, From gambit, Lasker variation
1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 g5

Bird, From gambit, Lipke variation
1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 Nh6 5. d4

Bird's opening, Swiss gambit
1. f4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. g4

Bird, Hobbs gambit
1. f4 g5

Overview

Games on Database:

20921

Last Played:

Oct 2023

Overall score:

34.9%

25.3%

39.8%

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Played frequently by:

White
Manfred Thonig	153 games
Vladimir Babionyshev	83 games
Henrik Danielsen	82 games

Black
Wolfgang Uhlmann	11 games
Joseph Henry Blackburne	10 games
Gedeon Barcza	9 games

Possible continuations:

1... d5

10124

34.1 %

26.1 %

39.8 %

1... Nf6

3241

32.4 %

26.7 %

40.9 %

1... e5

1940

39.4 %

20.6 %

39.9 %

1... c5

1915

33 %

25 %

42 %

1... g6

1547

28.4 %

27.1 %

44.5 %

1... e6

537

51.8 %

20.1 %

28.1 %

1... d6

524

42.7 %

23.3 %

34 %

1... f5

362

43.4 %

27.1 %

29.6 %

1... b6

304

35.2 %

23.7 %

41.1 %

1... Nc6

255

49 %

18.8 %

32.2 %

1... c6

41 %

26.2 %

32.8 %

1... b5

44.4 %

25.9 %

29.6 %

1... Nh6

24 %

16 %

60 %

1... g5

50 %

20 %

30 %

1... f6

40 %

20 %

40 %

1... h5

50 %

1... h6

50 %

1... a6

100 %