2...c5 loses a pawn. If White wants to, he can just take the c5 pawn. Then the Black's knight takes the pawn. Sure, Black has a developed knight but, with a whole pawn down, I don't think it's worth it. Also, White will be able bring his kingside bishop in one move and will be able to castle in about three moves, while Black will need an extra move for his bishop. I don't recommend 2...c5.
Chessmaster does but not Fritz and Chessbase, and my experience.
But you may be right.
I think you should play the knight out to f6 or just take with the queen. C5 does seem to be a bit dodgy. However it is very unusual and would take the opponent off book moves. If you play it often and know it quite well then this fact may prove extremely usful to you. I think you should explore it.
Thank you chuckward.
I have done a lot of analysis on 2... c5, and I will get around to posting it sometime in the next few days.
Chesslover96
I am busy with analysis on my games for Ward's Folly,but I will keep playing this defence to help you with your study of it.
Plus I am finding it quite interesting.
What is Ward's Folly?
After 3. d4 ( in the 2... c5 variation), I have analysed:
3... e6
3... b6
3... a6
b6 and a6 are looking the best to me so far, but still a lot of analysis to do! Also reccomended by Chessmaster (in only 15 seconds of analysis) is 3... Nf6, but I have not analysed it.
Ward's Folly is the Potato opening.I wrote a blog on it on my page.
Now for the 2... c5 variation how would you perfur me to play?
e6
b6
a6
nf6
This forum is dedicated to the study of Scandinavian Defense with 2... c5:
1. e4 d5
2.exd5 c5
This is my novelty that I have analysed in great depth and will post my analysis here.