Bongcloud Opening Book
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pauix wrote:
MikeDoyle wrote:
Top 10 reasons to play the Bongcloud (from "Winning with the Bongcloud" by BM Andrew Fabbro. BM stands for, no not that, for Bongcloudmaster, of course.):
10. Your current repertoire is too drawish.
9. You want to avoid the reams of theory needed to play the Najdorf or QGD by selecting an opening with less published thought.
8. "Everything is playable at the club level."
7. You are devoted to a de la Maza tactics regimen and don't want to waste time studying openings.
6. You are intimidated by openings with hard-to-pronounce names like Bogoljubov-Indian, Scheveningen Sicilian, Trompowsky, and Konstantinopolsky
5. Your current repertoire is too well-known in your club and you want to surprise your opponents.
4. You can't afford the full version of ChessBase and want an opening where all known games will fit in ChessBase Light's 32,000-game limit.
3. You're interested in an opening for which no GM or IM has published a refutation.
2. You’ve noticed that while dozens of people have published “Anti-Sicilian” books, there are far fewer “Anti-Bongcloud” books.
1. You’re high as a kite.
What do you expect forom a book that consulted this sources:
How to Regress Your Chess by Silman
The Hallucinations Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine
The Art of the Blunder in Chess by Vukovic
Play Losing Chess by Seirawan
Not My System by Nimzovich
The Really Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by Wolff
How to Beat Your Dog at Chess by Chandler
Illogical Chess, Move By Move by Chernev
Chess Openings for White, Unexplained by Marv Albert and GM Unpronounceablevili
The Stoner's Mind by Silman
The Least Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Chernev
Chess Fundamentals: The Out-Takes by Capablanca
Recent Developments in the 9. Bb5 Bongcloud by Lenny
Comedy goldmine.
I 'specially liked "Not My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch XD
Oh, and the #1 reason on MikeDoyle's list.
LoooL Funny stuff.
Oct 17, 2011
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#106
I would like to propose that the pre-opening where White incorrectly sets up his pieces by placing his King on d1 and his Queen on e1 as a pre-variant of the Bongcloud. I would like to call it the Harold and Kumar varation. If White then plays 1.c4 e5 2.Kc2(!!) then I would call it the White Castle.
Oct 17, 2011
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#107
oh and remember the top ten reasons to play this opening
My top ten
10. you hate standard openings
9. you want to play a true Kings Gambit
8. you play NN
7. Your opponent has a rating of a tooth brush(340, it beat my brother, before that it was rated 53)
6. you listen to to much Blue Oyster Cult
5. The title you have seems to be Mr. or Ms. or Mrs. and not CM NM IM GM WGM or the like
4. you feel that by emulating Lenny_Bongcloud the chess gods will impart some exerstencial knowledge upon your mortal brain
3. the Latvian Gambit is a "safe opening"( you want to play an opening that requires a person to grow a pair)
2. The Nf3 sicillian is to common, instead you listen to Bobby Fischer( as played on the ICC)
1. You are a red neck(sorry Jeff Foxworthy)
Nov 24, 2011
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#108
Conquistador, if you still have the intention of finalizing this, please accept my proposal to include a Fischer Variation
as played in this game on the ICC between a very strong player (probably Bobby Fish) and a GM
chess.com should set up a bongcloud chess variation where the first player to get the king across the board actually wins
Nov 25, 2011
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#110
bigryoung wrote:
chess.com should set up a bongcloud chess variation where the first player to get the king across the board actually wins
lmao brilliant suggestion.
its so funny how the other side is trying to check you and get your pieces but all you care about is getting the king across
Nov 26, 2011
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#113
Aquajet17 wrote:
[game]
I have a question. Does this game qualify as performance art?
Skewy wrote:
Actually, the Hammerschlag is quite solid once black's dark-squared-bishop is eliminated.
The Bongcloud is very solid once all of black's pieces are eliminated.
erixoltan wrote:
Aquajet17 wrote:
[game]
I have a question. Does this game qualify as performance art?
Hehe. Maybe :)
"Winning with the Bongcloud" by A.Fabbro is indeed one of the best chess books ever written. The only annoying detail is the lack of coverage of the enterprising 1.e4 d5 2.exd5!?(2.Ke2 is also good) Qxd5 3.Ke2!, the delayed scandinavian Bongcloud. It's a pity because the uninformed bongcloud player might find himsefl playing a lame move such as 3.Nc3 instead of throwing yet another deadly opening idea on his opponent.
Nov 27, 2011
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#117
Unfortunately due to the requirement of getting one's King to the otherside, checkmate is a draw, and it is actualy good for Black to force a draw due to the commonly used tournoment rule that claims Black advances in the case of a draw
I tought under bongcloud rules checkmate is condidered a loss.
Nov 27, 2011
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#119
well since niether player got thier king to the otherside, and since one player cannot move thier king it is drawn.
Af far as i know the rule is that checkmate loses. Otherwise if would be too easy to force a draw :) I think that a few online bongcloud tournaments have been held here on chess.com and the usual setting was that the checkmaters got eliminated manually from the tournament by the organizer to let the players who were playing under bongcloud rules advance.
Top 10 reasons to play the Bongcloud (from "Winning with the Bongcloud" by BM Andrew Fabbro. BM stands for, no not that, for Bongcloudmaster, of course.):
10. Your current repertoire is too drawish.
9. You want to avoid the reams of theory needed to play the Najdorf or QGD by selecting an opening with less published thought.
8. "Everything is playable at the club level."
7. You are devoted to a de la Maza tactics regimen and don't want to waste time studying openings.
6. You are intimidated by openings with hard-to-pronounce names like Bogoljubov-Indian, Scheveningen Sicilian, Trompowsky, and Konstantinopolsky
5. Your current repertoire is too well-known in your club and you want to surprise your opponents.
4. You can't afford the full version of ChessBase and want an opening where all known games will fit in ChessBase Light's 32,000-game limit.
3. You're interested in an opening for which no GM or IM has published a refutation.
2. You’ve noticed that while dozens of people have published “Anti-Sicilian” books, there are far fewer “Anti-Bongcloud” books.
1. You’re high as a kite.
What do you expect forom a book that consulted this sources:
How to Regress Your Chess by Silman
The Hallucinations Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine
The Art of the Blunder in Chess by Vukovic
Play Losing Chess by Seirawan
Not My System by Nimzovich
The Really Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by Wolff
How to Beat Your Dog at Chess by Chandler
Illogical Chess, Move By Move by Chernev
Chess Openings for White, Unexplained by Marv Albert and GM Unpronounceablevili
The Stoner's Mind by Silman
The Least Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Chernev
Chess Fundamentals: The Out-Takes by Capablanca
Recent Developments in the 9. Bb5 Bongcloud by Lenny