Sturt: The Modernized Bird’s Opening mix holz Aktiver König: Der König muss

Aktiver König: Der König muss in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Turm aktiv agieren

-- recognize unlikely moves

in the computer era with a lot of information easily provided

012 Chapter 1: Anti-Alapin

Wijk aan Zee 1999

Sturt: The Modernized Bird’s Opening mix holz Aktiver König: Der König mussDein berraschungsrepertoire gegen unvorbereitete Gegner Birds 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 9% of the time in online databases and this drops to 2% (!) in the masters database of OTB games. For reference in the OTB