"no way this isn't winning for white"

So about a week ago moon and I had agreed to play some rapid games and analyze them together on a discord vc, which we did publicly. The score ended up being 1-1, with moon winning the second one and me winning the first. Both were pretty wild games, but since I only have a limited amount of time on the internet and I want to go and play some video games now, I have limited myself to only annotating the one I won ( in order to increase ego size ).

On the explanation of why white's 5.g4? is a serious opening mistake...

Basically, when you're in a lead in development, you wish to open lines. Black, conversely, wishes to keep them closed until he can group his forces sufficiently. g4 looks aggressive on the outside, kicking black's h5 knight and gaining space, but in fact this is all an illusion. White, having wasted an entire move to force black's knight to go somewhere it was going to go anyways, has, simply, overextended. Black strikes back with ...h5, and either forces the position to be completely closed, or forces white to split his pawns and recieve h file pressure after gxh5 Nxh5. 

Long story short, white forces black to play good moves and cannot consolidate himself in time. 

Therefore the advantage goes to black.

the Queen sac hehe

btw Moon sucks at Pirc (hourly reminder)

LOL the Vienna comment tho

If you hate the Vienna so much, try learning some other response like the Sicilian or the Caro-Kann (not telling you how to live your life but choose the caro)

he plays the Alekhine but a lot of people transpose into the Vienna/4 knights with 2. nc3

Sigh I hated that game

then learn something other than the alekhine (the sicilian is also a respectable opening though caro is just too yes)

I think i might switch to playing norweigan and g6 Nh6 full time

wait what's the norweigan?

Wow nice game 😁

1. e4 g6 2. d4 nf6

what i played in the game

ok so it's like the king's indian defense but without d6

no because white can play 3. e5 and then the Fianchetto doesn't do anything

was this on the cc discord?

yea

but with d6 white can play e5 dxe5 dxe5 and we reach a similar position, the difference being that the d pawns are gone

I watched this game! Moon was winning, then equal and then got caught in time trouble

Only good move I saw was 21.c6, with other guesses being dumber lol

closed positions just be like that 

Caro is stupid, sicilian is brute force chess, French is weird