Timeline for Why isn't Bird's Opening at least as popular as the Dutch Defence?
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| Aug 4, 2020 at 5:16 | answer | added | user24344 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 23, 2020 at 21:31 | history | edited | Ellie |
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| Mar 5, 2019 at 11:32 | history | protected | Ellie | ||
| Sep 5, 2018 at 15:53 | vote | accept | Siddhartha | ||
| Sep 1, 2018 at 6:11 | comment | added | A. N. Other | That would be like asking, why is the Sicilian that popular vs. 1.e4, but a few years ago the English, 1.c4, was not so popular? Today 1.c4 is popular because contemporary top GMs do play almost everything, but look back to thr 1980s and 1990s... | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 21:34 | comment | added | Ywapom | As a side note: IM Tim Taylor wrote a book on the Bird, this game which appeared in the Los Angeles Times and was annotated by Jack Peters: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1499185, made him recommend transposing out of the bird if Black plays an early g6. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 16:40 | answer | added | Ellie | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | Herb | Very much related, and potentially a dupe is: chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1302/… | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChess/status/1035543028126154752 | ||
| Aug 31, 2018 at 8:27 | answer | added | Evargalo | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 8:03 | comment | added | Annatar | I don't know whether the Dutch Defence can actually be considered "popular". You encounter it only very occasionally, and the same can be said about Bird's Opening. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 0:17 | answer | added | Herb | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Aug 30, 2018 at 22:12 | history | asked | Siddhartha | CC BY-SA 4.0 |