French Toast in the McDonnell Labourdonnais!

An interesting and amusing caper from a 2.f4 French 🙂

If you have not used the RHP annotation viewer before select "View Interactive" from the tab near the top right of the page and the notes come up under the board.

Annotation 3611

After a number of moves, the position looks remarkably like Bird's Opening, Antoshin variation. I've never paid attention to this variation before, but I am going to give it a second look.

Thanks for the post!