Jun 16 – Monthly Bird – Wagner-Zwitersch (Swiss Gambit) – Unusual Birds

Start Date: Jun 16, 2024

Finish Date: Aug 27, 2024

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From Edward Winter (https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/swiss.html):

"The books call 1 f4 f5 2 e4 the Swiss Gambit, but this is a misnomer resulting from a misunderstanding. These opening moves, three consecutive improbabilities, attracted considerable international attention after the theoretician Alexander Wagner (1868-1942) published an article on pages 35-36 of the February 1912 Schweizerische Schachzeitung (see extract above). Entitled ‘A New Gambit."

Check out the link above for more information.