The Bombastic Bird's - an energetic and exciting repertoire after 1.f4 by Lawrence Trent

Over the years I have often heard Bird’s players (1.f4) labelled chess mavericks, “chancers”, too lazy to learn “proper” opening systems. Well, I am happy to say those days are well and truly over. Welcome to the “Bombastic Bird’s”, a revolutionary repertoire for one of the most enterprising and underrated openings in chess theory. In this series, I uncover a number of groundbreaking theoretical novelties and new ideas that will soon have scorners of this romantic system regretting they ever doubted its soundness. Black will often try to refute White’s setup right from the word “go”, an attempt which often embarrassingly backfires and leads to a quick victory for the first player. Even World Champion Magnus Carlsen has taken a shine to the opening, joining a whole host of top grandmasters integrating it into their opening arsenals.

• Video running time: 6 h 21 min (English)
• With interactive training incuding video feedback
• Extra: Database with model games
• Including CB Reader

1. 01: Intro [03:52]
2. Rare Lines
3. 01: 1.f4 g5 2.fxg5 h6 3.g6 - Hobbs Gambit - Video Analysis [06:57]
4. 02: 1.f4 Nh6 - Video Analysis [19:03]
5. 03: 1.f4 f5 2.e4 - Reversed From Gambit - Video Analysis [13:19]
6. 04: 1.f4 f5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.b3 - Video Analysis [08:35]
7. 05: 1.f4 b6 2.e4 Bb7 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 - Video Analysis [17:32]
8. 06: 1.f4 b5 2.e4 Bb7 3.Nf3 Bxe4 4.Nc3 - Video Analysis [05:59]
9. 07: 1.f4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d5/d6 - Video Analysis [08:46]
10. 1...d6
11. 01: 1.f4 d6 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.e4 - Video Analysis [13:36]
12. 02: 1.f4 d6 2.Nf3 c5 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 g6 5.0-0 Bg7 6.d3 - Video Analysis [19:03]
13. 1...e5 - Froms Gambit
14. 01: From Gambit Intro [03:54]
15. 02: 2...Nc6 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4 g4 5.Ng5 - Schlechter Gambit - Video Analysis [19:44]
16. 03: 2...d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf4 Rare 4th moves - Video Analysis [03:32]
17. 04: 2...d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Ng4/Nc6 - Video Analysis [19:58]
18. 05: 2...d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf4 g5 5.d3 g4 6.Nd4 - Lasker Variation - Video Analysis [27:52]
19. 1...d5
20. 01: 1.f4 d5 Intro [01:39]
21. 02: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bg4 3.e3 Nd7 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 Ngf6/e5/c6 - Video Analysis [17:39]
22. 03: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bf5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 e6 5.0-0 h6 - Reversed London System - Video Analysis [08:14]
23. 04: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Bf5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 e6 5.d3 c5 - Video Analysis [08:44]
24. 05: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 c6 3.c4/d3 - Video Analysis [20:21]
25. 06: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 - Video Analysis [16:07]
26. Fianchetto and e6
27. 01: 1.f4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.g3 b6 4.Bg2 Bb7 5.0-0 Be7 6.b3 0-0 - Video Analysis [05:47]
28. 02: 1.f4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.b3 Bb7 4.e3 g6 5.Bb2 Bg7 6.g3 0-0 - Double Fianchetto - Video Analysis [04:27]
29. 03: 1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 c5 5.0-0 b5/Nc6/b6 - Systems with e6 d5 and c5 - Video Analysis [10:37]
30. 04: 1.f4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.g3 and 2.e4 d5 3.e5 c5/h5 - Video Analysis [10:41]
31. Leningrad System
32. 01: Bird Leningrad Intro - Video Analysis [03:07]
33. 02: 6...Nc6/c6/b6 - Rare 6th moves - Video Analysis [12:03]
34. 03: 7...b6 - Video Analysis [12:02]
35. 04: 8.Na3 Rb8 - Video Analysis [19:09]
36. 05: 8.Na3 Re8 - Video Analysis [11:37]
37. 06: 8.Na3 d4 - Video Analysis [04:39]
38. 07: 8.Na3 b6 - Video Analysis [05:30]
39. 08: 8.Na3 Qc7 - Video Analysis [04:02]
40. Test section
41. 01: Question 1 [01:16]
42. 02: Question 2 [01:18]
43. 03: Question 3 [01:07]
44. 04: Question 4 [01:31]
45. 05: Question 5 [01:02]
46. 06: Question 6 [00:56]
47. 07: Question 7 [00:55]
48. 08: Question 8 [00:48]
49. 09: Question 9 [00:57]
50. 10: Question 10 [01:28]
51. 11: Outro [01:57]