This is my take on a famous Chess Opening Called the Bongcloud. I inevitably stumbled over this brilliantly named chess opening after spending some time watching Chess YouTube and random clips that were popular.

Here’s my understanding of it: Since Chess has been around for Ages and the Rules haven’t changed much, a lot of people have made an effort to develop the best opening strategies in order to bring your pieces in a favorable position. Nowadays, one can even consult Chess engines of what the best move is to play in any given position. This has lead to there being an incredible amount of so-called “Opening Theory” which are essentially strategies to develop your pieces in the first few moves of the game, and potentially if the opponent doesn’t know the position well enough, gain a significant advantage. To some Player and especially Beginners this can be very intimidating if not frustrating, and certainly leads to a fair few memes, one of them being the Bongcloud.

The Bongcloud opening is a joke of an opening, where White brings itself in pretty much the worst positing you could reach in just two moves. You move the pawn in front of the king two squares ahead, and then follow with the king himself. This really accomplishes nothing and brings your King in danger.

Since the opening clearly is a joke tho, the opponent often times follows up by mirroring the same moves and the Players then often repeat moves, resulting in a Draw.

Anyway I’m no chess expert but definitely love the idea of an opening so horrendous one calls it the Bongcloud xd