Jan-19-04 | | Dillinger: Why isn't this in the list of quickest games? |
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Sep-02-04 | | Knight13: If this is the Bird's Opening, I need to watch out. |
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Sep-01-05 | | fudge: <Knight13>, from what I've seen from Bird's games, the safest way to play the <Bird's Opening> is not to use it at all! |
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Sep-01-05 | | aw1988: <fudge> No offense, but your avatar is seriously scaring me... |
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Sep-01-05
 | | WannaBe: <aw1988> It's not as bad as having a wolf staring you down. :-0 |
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Sep-01-05 | | aw1988: Shudder. |
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Sep-03-05 | | fudge: <aw1988> It scares me too, but the shock value is good for my concentration :) |
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Sep-03-05 | | Halldor: For some reasons this game isn't in Ólafsson's book of his 50 best attacking games...! |
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Sep-03-05 | | Averageguy: This trap usually runs 4...g5 5.h3 Bg3# |
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Feb-08-06 | | McCool: That is just pathetic. |
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Jan-26-08
 | | fm avari viraf: A patzer or a Blindness? |
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Jan-26-08 | | pawnofdoom: Olafsson was 12 when he played this. If Boedvarsson was a good enough player to play the Birds opening, then he should have known better than to ever play h3. |
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May-28-08 | | number 23 NBer: Being a Bird-er myself, I can proudly say that I have never fallen into this sort of trap. However, I also have lost almost all my games where I took the e5-pawn anyway. |
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Jul-21-10 | | jbtigerwolf: I think that if White does not play 5.h3, he will probably win, as he has lost his f-pawn for both Black's central pawns. Black should win when White plays 1.f4. It's surprising that "I've lost almost all my games where I took the e5-pawn anyway".. that is in itself almost a full refutation of 1.f4. So if you don't take the e5 pawn, what then? I'll have a bit of a play, but it's long odds that I'll adopt this dubious opening... stokes the curiousity! |
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Feb-17-13 | | clownface: Dbl Pawn Bishop Ac |
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Dec-11-13 | | galdur: It´s just an anecdote. Later Mr. Böðvarsson went on to start a fund to further the chess career of the young Olafsson. |
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Mar-25-17
 | | FSR: More common is 4...g5 (instead of 4...Nc6) 5.h3?? Bg3#. That has been seen in four games in the database. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Playing 5.h3?? in response to 4...Nc6 is truly inspired. |
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Nov-03-19 | | sea7kenp: Either White should watch that h Pawn, or don't play the From Gambit! |
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May-23-21 | | Agferna: Come on folks let’s not make too much of this game. Likely a simple touch-o. Went for the g-pawn to play g3 and to his dismay touched or grabbed the h-pawn instead. A mere case of imprecise eye-hand coordination, in a game as chess in which precision is everything. Tons of examples of real life consequential typos, touch-os and now with online chess we have mouse-os of which Carlson has already committed a few.
Definition of mouse-o: an unintended online chess move caused by imprecision of mouse itself or imprecision of eye-hand-mouse coordination.
Cheers |
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Jul-02-21 | | sea7kenp: <Agferna>: I hadn't thought of Touch Piece. Just one more thing to be careful of, in a Tournament. |
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