Chess Traps- Bird's Eye View

We take a look at a chess trap for black against the bird's opening from weak. Black focuses on the weakness created by the lack of the f2 pawn and offers a pawn as a sacrifice to put the trap in motion.

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• chess openings

[TeraHammer]

I'd be an ass and play Qh4 at 4:36 :->, and then checkmate with bisshop ^^

[thechesswebsite]

hahahahahaha, classic

[chipdouglas42]

instead of bd6 black can play qd4 with a fork

[thechesswebsite]

very true

[buchanantroll]

Am i the only person that would move Bb2 at 2:13?

[rpdigital17]

@taviskaron15 I don't put it simple. It is just that Bird's opening is like reverse Sicilian defense and it is not popular, as whte side has a little advantage in pawn positions for King's Gambit and Queen's Gambit. Making triangle on the King side will prevent direct threat, but I dislike the idea of opening your f2 or f7 at all. and obviously you can see that in this example white plays more than one bad moves (and I don't mean I have never played bad moves).

[taviskaron15]

@rpdigital17 You put it too simply. In Bird, 1.f4 followed by Nf3 and b3 is a natural way of controlling the e5 square. The other thing is White should always be prepared for Black's ...e5 pushing and change the strategy drastically after it. If Black refuse to play e5 whatsoever, White's going to be ok with such a plan. In this particular case, 3.Nc3 should have been played, to prepare the e2-e4 move in case of 3...e5. Taking on e5 is apparently wrong, that's White's major mistake.

[dragonoidcolosus]

is that the froms gambit

[rpdigital17]

@RandyIsC0o00o0L You are right, as you can sacrifice Queen and checkmate with Bishop later. But the whole example is about white playing wrong. I mean 1. f4? If you know thhe basics of opening and 2-move checkmate, the you will know the weaknesses of f2 and f7 squares and you would like to defend them, not to open them. And 1:54 white does fxe5 digging king-side even weaker. 2:30 white moves Nf3 and losing tempo, instead of finishing the fianchetto Bb2. This is just an exaple of bad playing.

[RandyIsC0o00o0L]

@TheDslide Hell ya .. :D

[RandyIsC0o00o0L]

@rpdigital17 Nope, it is not.

[rpdigital17]

2:40 Play g3 and the threat is over.