A full aggressive opening repertoire for both colors based on the Dutch Defense for black and the Bird for white!
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The Dutch Defense is a very powerful weapon to add to your repertoire. It’s an opening system rather than an opening with an exact move order, and it can be reached via many different moves, and played against many different openings white chooses.
It can be employed against the Reti, English, and even Nimzo-Larsen, but the main line Dutch is played against d4.
The idea behind the Dutch is to challenge the center straight away by playing f5, thus taking control of the e4 square, and making it very hard for white to expand in the center. The downside of the move f5 is that it weakens the black king in more ways than one. It weakens the seventh rank, and both diagonals looking at f7.
The Bird can go three different ways, depending on what Black chooses to do. Regardless of what they do, though, we will still be able to choose the nature of the position and have a setup we Know and enjoy.
The first and most aggressive defense to the Bird is 1…e5, the From gambit. It’s tough to play against, and Black scores very well simply because a single mistake by white means the end of the game is near. If you Know how to fight it, white is always better!
The second option is a Dutch Defense in reverse. If Black plays d5, it’s a Dutch a tempo up! Thirdly, Black can choose to play one of the rare moves, most common of which is 1…c5, playing for a Sicilian type setup.
Dutch and Bird repertoire
0:00 Introduction
02:40 Leningrad Dutch
09:30 Staunton Gambit
13:22 Raphael Dutch
15:34 Hopton Attack
20:17 London System
24:50 Krejcik Gambit
26:10 Korchnoi Attack
29:04 Alapin Variation
38:38 From’s Gambit
42:05 Horsefly Defense
43:35 Leningrad Bird