A very relevant resource for black as an answer to somewhat anoying opening move of white. Nicely explained!

I have won all my games against the Bird so far, after watching your video. Thanks a lot Miodrag!

I lost to the bird opening dutch variation like 8 times in a row in bullet. So excited for this. Thanks man

As a Bird’s opening player, I must learn what not to do, so to be able to use what I know

Mr. Perunovic, your free content is awasome!KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!! I can't understand you having so few donations :(

just started doing the birds opening without knowing what it was the past few days and it rose my rank a full 60

Thanks for bringing in here ur wonderful mood!

Nicely explained. Very clear. Thank you so much!

Ill never skip your ads. Keep up the good works sir!

Great advice. Thank you!

Great stuff, thanks a lot! Regards from Bulgaria! :-)

Amazing video, thank you sir!

I actually love your content and I think it’s criminal you don’t get more views. I hope this channel sky rockets one day because I think this is some of the best chess education/ content on YT.

Thank you so much for this video!

Thank you for this awesome weapon! :)

Excellent!

There is an alternative for white. 2...d6. 3. Nf3 dxe5. 4. Nc3. At this point, black's statistically correct move is Nc6, but black will probably be intent on bringing the bishop out which would be a slightly inferior alternative and return the advantage to white. As white I would then play e4, halting the e5 pawn's advance and preventing the bishop from free access to the diagonal. The drawback for white is that this move requires a different style of play than the traditional Bird's strategy of controlling the black squares, but it does offer a very playable alternative.

Thank you very much for this analysis. As white I play the Bird's opening exclusively and this allowed me to shore up a weakness.

Nicely Explained Sir...👍👍👍👍👍

Great stuff

thanx mio

Thanks!

Mio, you are one of the best chess youtubers I never see before. Thanks for this weapon against boring bird opening, it will be interesting to see a weapon against Alekhine Defense

I always wondered why engines recommended From's Gambit, now I understand why

Hey Mio, last year you did an amazing course about the Traxler! What's about the Vuković Gambit in the Ponziani opening? Nobody has yet talked about it on youtube and it's in your style of play! Thank you for this amazing course on the Bird, I pray for my future opponents.

Mr. Perunovic - Very nicely explained. Your content is great. One query over this. What if instead of taking the pawn on e5 on white’s second move, white develops the knight straight away. Is that any variation of this gambit too.

This Gambit is really tricky for both sides. One time I was checkmated on move 5 as white.

Thank you sir! I'm gonna try this at my office, there's a boss using bird's opening and it's really annoying

Your chess amazing yr English amazing and your teaching is amazing.

I do play the Bird often and I always go for the Kings Gambit instead if the answer is Froms Gambit. I feel also, 3 e5 x d6 is unplayable for the whole bunch of terrible variations correctly mentioned by you, and 3 Nf3 does not look much better for white. In the Kings Gambit there are a number of complicated variations I like for white, and whoever has prepared the From to outprepare me, usually wants to use a shock therapy, but he is not likely to be a Kings Gambit enthusiast.

It would be also very nice if you could analyze the Stauton or some other Gambit against the Dutch !

Hallo dear Mio. I am Bird and Dutch player. I play everytime 1.f4 and nobody can win against me in Gambit. Your vid was interesting for me at 17:00 because i never play Ne5 or g5. The last time i won against 2500+ on Lichess. But thank u. Tell to People that they should allways play Fromms or Immanuel Schlechter or Wagner-Zwitersch Gambit 😂. I am waiting for u all in Gambit. Best regards, Ramin.

I play the Bird quite a bit. It's surprising how infrequently I run into From's Gambit. I'm not really that high rated though so I'm sure a lot of the people I play against have never run into Birds Opening.

Hello Mr Butcher :) 8:10 you say "they have to play Nf4 after black push g4".... my opponent went Nd4 and I can't see the following moves which seems obvious to take a good advantage ..... do I have to go h5 now ?? sorry I must be blind or something could you help me please? Please someone to help me?? thank you very much

I already play the Froms Gambit it is really nice way to punish the Bird Opening. But I play actually not the mainline so im very interested what you are going to recommend.

Recently, i had an online opponent who played a very interesting line : 5.d3 g4 6. Nd4 (which seems a little bit odd at first sight) Qh4+ 7.g3 Bxg3 8. hxg3 Qxh1 9.Bf4 with the idea of a very fast development by white : Qd2, Nc3 and 0-0-0 (with some threats like Qe3+ and Nb5 in the air) and claiming that the black queen is terribly missplace. This line scored incredibly well on lichess database with 70% winrate for white after 5.d3 for players rated 2000+ (and even for players rated 2500+) with a large amount of games. Also, this line seems to be computer approved with at least around +1 for white no matter what black plays. What would you advice to face this and do you think this is something special for white ? (Thanks you for your great video, i'm a big fan !)

How would you response if white played d3 on move white

Another video another gambit :D

On 19.33 what about Nf3, fork on bishop and queen? I quess, white is better?!

when i play the bird opening why should I take the black pawn? I always just defend by moving my queen pawn forward to defend with black bishop. It seems like the only good as white move when that pawn is being attacked. but i'm not that far in the rankings so idk.

At the 19:01 my opponent played Qh6 instead of c3 threatening mate on g8. Rg7 is followed by Bxh6 and it looks like Black is in serious trouble.

What about Bg2 instead of Qd3 at 13:30?

Andrew Soltis wrote a book on Birds Opening, especially on the From’s Gambit. How well you do against him?

Bird spotted gimme the caliber 12 ^^ thank you Butcher

At 17:58, what if white plays d5 instead of e4? d5 with the idea of Ne6. Thanks for the incredibly good stuff you are showing in your videos, I'm subscribing.

"We follow the footsteps of Blackburne." Don't you mean goosesteps? ;P

2:43 g3 response

1:33 They don’t have to take it... Knight f3 is the best move...

You didn't talk much about 7. e4 Ng6 8. Nf5 ... how is that for white?

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Mato jelic “bird’s is name of a person not birds” you should have a game with him if he still plays

I think you missed c3 as an option in the Lasker variation..

noice

What about 5. c3?

At 10:21 I tried to figure out over the board why white can't play e5. Can anyone help?

What if play 1 d4 .... 2 f4. ... 3 e3 ..

4:50

3:12

1.f4 e5 2.e4!

Great content as always❤ btw I hate people who play the bird or the dutch😂

Not sure white is so bad after f4 e5 fxe5 d6 Nf3. Seems like easy development and a better center for white. 🤷🏻‍♂️

As a Bird's player, I'd just like to say that white is perfectly fine (or even better) in the From's. the From's is NOT a refutation of the Bird. Y'all gotta calm down. Plus there is a hole in his analysis. at around 15:50 White is actually much better after O-O! (instead of Nxd6+) and if Black continues Rdh8 then White has the amazing h4!! and if black takes en passant then White will use your pawn as a shield.

hm i play bird , kinda sad not to see you talk about b5 , d3 , b4, nd4 , which is the main line i play

jel postoji sansa da ces napraviti video o bird otvaranju sa strane osobe koja ga igra?

So it’s just a Staunton gambit down a tempo? That seems pretty bad for black. I guess it’s not quite a Staunton because you’re gambit the queens pawn instead of the kings knights pawn, but still pretty similar

Till this date I don't understand why people play the birds opening. You would have to play a perfect game to not lose the game. Weaking the kings diagonal with the very first move is not good. There is a reason why this move is rarely played at GM level.

thank you. Bird's opening is very annoying

what chess app are you using???

I've just crushed Corona virus, thanks to our analysis ;) Check it out :) Even Corona is nothing for subs on this channel! [Event "Rated Blitz game"] [Site "lichess.org/KtHCTZJG"] [Date "2020.05.18"] [Round "-"] [White "korronavirus"] [Black "TheButcherMio"] [Result "0-1"] [UTCDate "2020.05.18"] [UTCTime "15:51:02"] [WhiteElo "2516"] [BlackElo "2489"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-7"] [BlackRatingDiff "+6"] [BlackTitle "IM"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "A02"] [Opening "Bird Opening: From's Gambit, Lasker Variation"] [Termination "Normal"] [Annotator "lichess.org"] 1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 g5 { A02 Bird Opening: From's Gambit, Lasker Variation } 5. g3 g4 6. Nh4 Ne7 7. d4 Ng6 8. Nxg6 hxg6 9. Qd3 Nc6 10. c3 Qe7 11. e4 Be6 12. Bg2 O-O-O 13. Be3 Rxh2 14. Rxh2 Bxg3+ 15. Ke2 Bxh2 16. Nd2 f5 17. d5 Bxd5 18. exd5 f4 19. Qe4 fxe3 20. Qxe7 Nxe7 21. Nf1 Bf4 22. Rd1 Nf5 23. Be4 Re8 24. Bc2 Rh8 25. c4 b6 26. b4 Kd7 27. c5 g3 28. Bxf5+ gxf5 29. Nxe3 Re8 30. Rd3 g2 31. Kf2 Rxe3 32. c6+ Kd6 { White resigns. } 0-1

hey what about them playing Bishop H3

Funny because I have so far beaten everyone who has used froms gambit against me

Wouldnt say, that the froms gambit is really terryfing against a "seriously" Bird-Player. Every good Bird-Player studies the From-Gambit perfectly or avoids it entirely with 2. e4. Black really has to know what he is doing and even on Pro-Level its not clear if you can get an advantage with it for black. And even IF you are that of an ultimate Froms Gambit-Player as black, so be it. As a Bird-Player i can tell, that the gambit is played rarely and i never saw the complete main-variation he shows in the video on a chessboard. Maybe in 1 of 100 Froms Gambit-Plays you will face a pro in this variation, but for the rest, you will have the upper hand with better knowledge and comfort in this variation. Cheers

isnt froms gambit refuted ?

sadly something happend my game after white played Nf3 ,g5 ....d3 ..g4....Nd4 everything went wrong

no we dont have to take it . i play the Bird's. AND i never take the 2nd pawn . sorry :p. i just masscred my opponent in the 1/2 From's lol

Who else come here to beat Julia 🤣🤣

Birds opening seems fundamentally flawed and weak. Stats show it's weak as well. Not sure why people choose to play it.

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8:50 I played this variation, White played Nc3....me Ng6. Then Nxg6-hxg6 Ne4! Computer says, White up almost 1

zelensky?