How to play the scandinavian defense

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lolbitdummy
After e4. d5. e5. c5. What are the best ways to take advantage of white's mistake?
 
nolucaak

Play c5, grabbing control of d4 square

Iansicles

I play like this

What should white do

StageKing

Probably d4 after this. Unless they offer a pawn or something like that.

AJmeakins

My favorite opening

KhangHieu4444

I would develop Nc6 or e6, but I'm not sure

Eli-Jackson

After e4 d5 e5 black will play c5 then nf3 nc6 Bb5 e6 d4 it is good for both sides

AJmeakins

Apparently after Nc3 attacking the queen the better move is to pin the knight by playing stockfish says when I review games I play with Scandi

KingStreetTheGreat

Inormally take the pawn and develop, but my favorite variation is the leonhardt gambit.

Senator-StevenArmstrong
lolbitdummy wrote:
After e4. d5. e5. What are the best ways to play this?
 
 

Don't

Chess_With_Love
Chessian-Ian wrote:

I play like this

What should white do

me to

Chess_With_Love

you can also play e5 c5

percyjacksonperfect
lolbitdummy wrote:
After e4. d5. e5. What are the best ways to play this?
 
 

Ok in my opinion if you are talking about being white, do not play this. Please take the pawn. In bullet or blitz i would advise this line. In rapid just play the regular exd5 Qxd5 and Nc3, chess.com has a video on this openeing. This is the line I play

Or something with the idea of going c4 and d4, and developing Nc3 after c4.
ZeyuChessmaster
ZeyuChessmaster

Scandinavian defense misses kotrcmain line

TurChess10

I play the modern variation

Sitbear

Why are you asking opening theory questions in an improver's forum? Learning theory won't help you improve, and you also don't need to be asking on a forum. Watch some videos or read an article.

https://www.chess.com/openings/Scandinavian-Defense

https://www.chess.com/lessons/learn-the-openings/learn-the-scandinavian-defense-1

nonamepotato2

White almost never goes e5 (it’s a mistake). Main line is e4 d5 exd5 Qxd5 Nc3 Qa5 d4 c6 Nf3 Bf5 Bc4.

CRHer700
Sitbear wrote:

Why are you asking opening theory questions in an improver's forum? Learning theory won't help you improve, and you also don't need to be asking on a forum. Watch some videos or read an article.

https://www.chess.com/openings/Scandinavian-Defense

https://www.chess.com/lessons/learn-the-openings/learn-the-scandinavian-defense-1

Because he wanted to. I don't see a real problem as it isn't hurting anyone.

Shabba_De_Leon
lolbitdummy wrote:
After e4. d5. e5. What are the best ways to play this?
 
 

As black? c5. You then have the option of attacking e5 with the queen's knight and other means, or completely ignoring it for the hour and fianchetto your bishop and castle kingside. As a Scandi player, I loved when white pushed their pawn to e5. As a French Defence player, I'm very accustomed to that e5 push as well (advance variation).