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The Modernized Bird's Opening: A Complete Repertoire for White

The Modernized Bird's Opening: A Complete Repertoire for White

Sturt

Hardcover

Series: Modernized

Chess

Publisher Price: $47.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date June 17, 2025

ISBN10: 9083488276
ISBN13: 9789083488271
Publisher: Thinkers Publishing
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 583
Language: English

Bird's Opening is currently in that 'Goldilocks' zone of the great arbitrages in life. The majority of chess players have dismissed it overlooking its inherent value and this allows for adopters of the Bird to take advantage of this asymmetry. As of this writing, it is played 0.9% of the time in online databases and this drops to 0.2% (!) in the master's database of OTB games. For reference in the OTB database 1.e4 is played 45% of the time. So for every 225 OTB games your opponent plays against 1.e4, he plays against the Bird once. While a case could be made that 1.e4 or 1.d4 are stronger, the objective difference between them and the Bird is infinitesimal. The way I see it, people will continue to ignore the Bird for the foreseeable future. Unless this book sells a million copies, the Bird will never be played remotely close to the frequency it deserves. Because of this it will never be worth your opponent's while to study it, so it will always carry great surprise value.


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