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Bent Larsen use it against Petrossian and Spassky, and wins the games. You can download a lot of games with this opening at http://www.very-best.de/Download.htm

LivingLegend was one of the better bird players on the site.

For examples:

Game 265911, Game 421515, Game 438063, Game 450910, Game 468339, Game 482171, Game 502054, Game 502066, Game 513845, Game 515166, Game 516488, Game 518109, Game 524866, Game 525515, Game 528163, Game 530123, Game 549073, Game 557128, Game 563519, Game 563523, Game 564284, Game 564286, Game 564287, Game 564288, Game 564290, Game 564291, Game 564292, Game 564293, Game 564295, Game 564296, Game 565398, Game 565644, Game 569424, Game 569462, Game 570164, Game 570259, Game 570442, Game 570746, Game 570910, Game 571543, Game 572813, Game 572974, Game 572977, Game 572978, Game 573046, Game 573060, Game 573061, Game 573068, Game 573279, Game 573282, Game 573308, Game 573797, Game 573798, Game 573799, Game 573805, Game 573807, Game 573828, Game 574317, Game 575890, Game 578609, Game 610645, Game 610646, Game 610647, Game 700997, Game 700998, Game 734082, Game 893663, Game 948501

Edit: anybody looking to play an average 1400-1500 bird player should try challenging joselito. He is another bird player that has got me on the run in our pair of bird games...

I play it myself for over a year now. at e5 i play d3, if I take it, I'll have to fight the from-gambit, that's heavy stuff.

I play it, but only against CMX. The personalities always plays From's Gambit, and they are simpy pitiful gambit players. Other than that I believe that Black gets a good postion in many cases from 1...d5, leading to a reversed Dutch.