Winning with the Bongcloud

For those who find the Hammerschlag theory to difficult to learn, I have recently come across another opening which contains some of the same themes and yet is subtly different. The Bongcloud Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Ke2) is the kind of opening that appeals to the player who wishes to avoid the opening phase altogether. Of course this may result in such accidents as 1.e4 e5 2.Ke2 Qh4 3.Nf3?? Qxe4# but if you get beyond that, an exciting game surely awaits.
There is even a book written on the Bongcloud, available in PDF format at www.chess.com. The author, Andrew Fabbro, gives a number of reasons for playing the Bongcloud, my favourite being "You’ve noticed that while dozens of people have published “Anti-Sicilian” books, there are far fewer “Anti-Bongcloud” books".
Certainly if you pick this opening you will avoid players with huge opening databases, as in my collection of games (3,000,000+) I found exactly 1 game that began this way. However White's play was too weak to do the opening justice, so clearly it is an opening that awaits another champion.

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