A02Opening
Bird Opening:From's Gambit
1. f4 e5
White to move
- Legal moves
- 21
- Games in the next 4 moves
- 443,288
- Different positions among them
- 155,432
- Named lines from here
- 10
Named after the Danish player Martin Severin From: Black gives a pawn with 1...e5 to open lines against White’s king.
It is reached after 2 moves: 1. f4 e5. It is a line of the Bird Opening.
White is to move and has 21 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 443,288 different games. Those games reach 155,432 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 2.9 on average.
The Lichess opening list names 10 further lines after this position, such as Bahr Gambit (2. Nc3) and Lasker Gambit (2. fxe5 f6).

Move by move
- 1. f4Bird Opening
- 1... e5Bird Opening: From's Gambit
Named lines from here
- Bahr GambitA022. Nc3
- Lasker GambitA022. fxe5 f6
- Platz GambitA022. fxe5 Ne7
- Schlechter GambitA022. fxe5 Nc6
- Fool's MateA022. g4 Qh4#
- Langheld GambitA022. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Nf6
- Siegener GambitA022. d4 exd4 3. Nf3 c5 4. c3
- Lasker VariationA022. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 g5
- Lipke VariationA022. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 Nh6 5. d4
Related openings
- Bird OpeningA021. f4
FEN
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