Bird & Dutch: 1.F4 and 1F5 in Chess Openings

You can play Bird's Opening and Dutch Defence and win! You do not worry about most other openings. The Bird and Dutch openings mirror each other. lists the original 2015 publication date, but this Kindle edition has been expanded to match the 2016 paperback edition of Bird & Dutch: 1.f4 and 1.f5 in Chess Openings with 124 games. Author Tim Sawyer shares what it is like to play these openings or against them. He spent 45 years playing masters, experts and club players in tournament, correspondence and blitz games. You can always play 1.f4 as White. You play 1f5 as Black against 1.d4 or 1.c4 or 1.Nf3 or anything except 1.e4. Try it! Bird's Opening begins with 1.f4. It was promoted by Henry Bird. Later Tartakower and Larson tried it. Schwarz, Soltis, Schiller, Hayward, Taylor and Lakdawala have written

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