Chess Openings – Bird’s Opening
Kevin at www.thechesswebsite.com explains the Bird’s opening which is the 6th most popular opening but is not used much compared to the others. The game starts with white moving f2 to f4. There are a couple of things we have to watch over here. The most common move is black responding with e5. This gives white two options. The first option is to capture e5 with the pawn in f4 or push up e2 to e4, which is a transition to the King’s Gambit. This is the first probability that could happen in retrospect to f4.
But usually, black responds with nf6 and white replies with nf3. So with these two moves, you got to make note of the most important factor involved with the Bird’s opening i.e. the white is trying to control the dark squares whereas black is looking to control the light squares by moving d7 to d5. So in this case, the dark square bishop for the white is going to play a key role in winning the game. This strategy of controlling the dark and light squares by both sides is going prevail throughout the game.
This video is about how to build your attack and gain a better control over the light or dark squares, (depending on which side you’re playing) and eventually win the game.
