Big Bird PowerBase

Never again will you agonize over what to play as White, because Bird's Opening is the perfect system for the rest of your life! There's no need to learn a dozen openings based on the King's pawn or Queen's pawn, not when 1.f4 offers rich and varied games, suitable for winning chess. Black cannot hide, he cannot evade this complex opening - and now you can know the Bird better than anyone!

Some benefits of this new 2005 2nd Edition are described later. The bottom line is that almost three years since the PowerBase was created we still find that Bird's Opening enjoys patronage at all levels of play. And at 50,442 games in the present 2nd Edition, we trust that The Big Bird PowerBase remains the most complete source on 1.f4 found anywhere!

Besides more games, other improvements include an increase in "main" annotated games to 615, including seven or eight more sets of annotations by Wilhelm Steinitz of great old 1.f4 games. Beyond the 615 main annotated games, nearly one thousand further games have some sort of critical mark or notation, and are scattered throughout the database. Also the Openings Key has been expanded to 2,188 classification positions, a powerful tool for gazing deep into Bird's Opening. The "Getting Started" text document has been beefed up, and there is an excellent new photograph of Henry Bird, the finest you'll ever see. Naturally the Tree databases and .pgn files have been updated. Anyone who intends to play Bird's Opening will find that The Big Bird PowerBase is a keen weapon, which can help to defeat even the strongest of chess opponents!

The Big Bird PowerBase gives you complete coverage of 1.f4, including the Stonewall, Bird-Larsen Attack, Reversed Leningrad, and From's Gambit. The 615 annotated games feature notes by Steinitz, Tartakower, Bird, Staunton, Zukertort, Nimzowitsch, and many others - the great majority with full text commentary. This CD comes with everything you need to become an expert at Bird's Opening, such as:

* A huge database of 50,443 games
* 615 main annotated games
* Nearly 1,000 further games with medals, critical marks, evaluations, etc.
* Detailed opening key with nearly 2,200 classification positions
* 5 theme keys and clean indexes
* 4 text documents - even H. E. Bird essays and photos!
* A giant tree database, plus specialized Fritz books (From's, Stonewall, Leningrad)
* Complete PGN files
* Bonus database of selected odds games with Bird's Opening

Join the many GMs and IMs who rely on Bird's Opening as their primary weapon for White - you too can become a feared "Bird Man" with this CD at your fingertips! There's never been a more complete 1.f4 resource than The Big Bird PowerBase. Order your copy today!