Famous italian player Greco
Greco vs NN, 1620  (A02) Bird's Opening, 10 moves, 1-0
Howard Staunton
Staunton vs E Williams, 1851  (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
Adolf Anderssen...romantic genius
Anderssen vs Kolisch, 1861  (A02) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 1-0
Bird plays the reversed from's gambit 1.f4 f5 2.e4!?
Bird vs O Gelbfuhs, 1873  (A02) Bird's Opening, 15 moves, 1-0
Chigorin...practical genius
Chigorin vs A Sellman, 1883  (A02) Bird's Opening, 30 moves, 1-0
lasker's famous double bishop sac
Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889  (A03) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 1-0
Lasker...longest running world champion...loses to the Bird's
Bird vs Lasker, 1892  (A03) Bird's Opening, 102 moves, 1-0
Lasker's revenge....From's gambit / Lasker variation
Bird vs Lasker, 1892  (A02) Bird's Opening, 42 moves, 0-1
Henry "The Black Death" Blackburne gives Bird the Bird
Blackburne vs Bird, 1892  (A02) Bird's Opening, 46 moves, 1-0
Bird vs B Vergani, 1895  (A02) Bird's Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
Albin vs J Mieses, 1903  (A02) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1-0
V Yurevich vs M Lowcki, 1903  (A03) Bird's Opening, 53 moves, 1-0
Chigorin vs Spielmann, 1907  (A03) Bird's Opening, 53 moves, 1-0
F Malthan vs Marshall, 1908  (A02) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 1-0
Tarakower plays the Bird
Tartakower vs C Jaffe, 1911  (A02) Bird's Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Tartakower vs Marshall, 1914  (A02) Bird's Opening, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Capablanca vs R Portela, 1913  (A03) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs Cercle de la Rive Gauche, 1925  (C00) French Defense, 36 moves, 1-0
Nimzowitsch vs Kmoch, 1927  (A02) Bird's Opening, 33 moves, 1-0
F Bohatirchuk vs V Makogonov, 1927  (A03) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1-0
A Brinckmann vs Tartakower, 1927  (A02) Bird's Opening, 68 moves, 1-0
Capablanca vs I S Turover, 1931  (A03) Bird's Opening, 65 moves, 1-0
A young Korchnoi uses the Bird to beat a strong player
Korchnoi vs G Goldberg, 1950  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0
Larsen vs G Fuster, 1958  (A02) Bird's Opening, 33 moves, 1-0
Larsen beats World Champion Petrosian
Larsen vs Petrosian, 1958  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0
Larsen vs S From, 1963  (A02) Bird's Opening, 44 moves, 1-0
F Bohatirchuk vs A Kalotay, 1964  (A02) Bird's Opening, 38 moves, 1-0
Larsen beats World Champion Spassky
Larsen vs Spassky, 1964  (A03) Bird's Opening, 60 moves, 1-0
Larsen vs Gligoric, 1966  (A02) Bird's Opening, 66 moves, 1-0
Evans vs E Paoli, 1967  (A03) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0
B Ekenberg vs Andersson, 1969  (A02) Bird's Opening, 63 moves, 1-0
Bobby Fischer beats World Champion Smyslov
Fischer vs Smyslov, 1970  (A02) Bird's Opening, 64 moves, 1-0
Bronstein vs F Visier Segovia, 1972 (A03) Bird's Opening, 55 moves, 1-0
Unorthodox fan M Basman draws against World Champion Tal
M Basman vs Tal, 1974  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1/2-1/2
N Davis vs R Jamieson, 1975  (A02) Bird's Opening, 35 moves, 1-0
Romanishin vs Kasparov, 1975  (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 0-1
Bronstein vs P Trzaska, 1991 (A03) Bird's Opening, 42 moves, 1-0
"The Alterman Wall"
B Alterman vs Deep Fritz, 2000  (A03) Bird's Opening, 87 moves, 1-0
Blatny vs J Kraai, 2001  (A02) Bird's Opening, 25 moves, 1-0
Granda Zuniga vs Beliavsky, 2002  (A02) Bird's Opening, 54 moves, 1-0
A Jakubiec vs R Schmaltz, 2002 (A02) Bird's Opening, 68 moves, 1-0
A Jakubiec vs K Kuzmicz, 2003 (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
S von Freymann vs Rubinstein, 1912  (A02) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
S von Freymann vs Bogoljubov, 1914  (A02) Bird's Opening, 22 moves, 1-0
Alekhine gets an inferior game out of the opening
Pelikan vs Alekhine, 1936  (A02) Bird's Opening, 46 moves, 1/2-1/2
One of Tarrasch's best games in any opening
Tarrasch vs Marotti / Napoli / de Simone / del, 1914  (A03) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 1-0
A Yam vs Shirov, 2005  (A03) Bird's Opening, 39 moves, 0-1
Ljubojevic vs C Zuidema, 1972  (A03) Bird's Opening, 19 moves, 1-0
V Malaniuk vs H Hamdouchi, 1997 (A03) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
S Williams vs Harikrishna, 2002 (A03) Bird's Opening, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2
S Buecker vs Suetin, 1990  (A03) Bird's Opening, 49 moves, 1-0
Modern battle between two world class players
Aronian vs Topalov, 2006  (A03) Bird's Opening, 51 moves, 1-0
Mikhail Gurevich..Dutch defense expert plays the reverse dutch
M Gurevich vs Gelfand, 1989  (A03) Bird's Opening, 36 moves, 1/2-1/2
M Gurevich vs H Pehlivanlar, 2006 (A00) Uncommon Opening, 41 moves, 1-0
Henrik Danielsen...strongest 1.f4 player in recent times
H Danielsen vs O Salmensuu, 1997  (A03) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs P H Nielsen, 2001 (A02) Bird's Opening, 25 moves, 0-1
H Danielsen vs L Schandorff, 2001  (A03) Bird's Opening, 55 moves, 0-1
H Danielsen vs J A Nilssen, 2004 (A03) Bird's Opening, 34 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs C Hansen, 2005 (A03) Bird's Opening, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
H Danielsen vs S B Hansen, 2005  (A02) Bird's Opening, 27 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs A Ismagambetov, 2006  (A02) Bird's Opening, 53 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs M Tandrup, 2005  (A03) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs B Thorfinnsson, 2006  (A02) Bird's Opening, 46 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs J V Gunnarsson, 2006  (A02) Bird's Opening, 41 moves, 1-0
H Danielsen vs P Ricardi, 2006 (A03) Bird's Opening, 49 moves, 1-0
This is why you don't play 1.f4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.b3?!
Nimzowitsch vs L Steiner, 1927  (A03) Bird's Opening, 28 moves, 0-1
Tartakower vs Reti, 1914  (A03) Bird's Opening, 50 moves, 1-0
Bird vs J Mason, 1889  (A03) Bird's Opening, 47 moves, 1-0
Bird's Opening Scandinavian defense with extra f4 move
Short vs Timman, 2002  (B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 22 moves, 1/2-1/2
Magnus Carlsen game
K Lie vs Carlsen, 2007  (A02) Bird's Opening, 31 moves, 0-1
B Amin vs D Rombaldoni, 2008 (A03) Bird's Opening, 37 moves, 1-0
L Kritz vs P Prohaszka, 2008 (A03) Bird's Opening, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2
From's Gambit declined
H Danielsen vs R Pokorna, 2003  (A02) Bird's Opening, 60 moves, 1-0
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