1.e4 d5 2.f3?!/!?

What is your take on f3 as a counter for Scandinavian Defense? What would be your response?

I played this opening in a recent SD tournament because I wanted to go off the theory as fast as possible without leaving myself too crippled and creating a non-standard, complex game. I won the game as white but I believe black could find a lot of counterplay during the game.

There is no recorded game with moves in this order on chess.com explorer, the only one with a position like that is the game that went 1.f3 d5 2.e4 http://www.chess.com/games/view?id=180049

This transposes to the Fantasy Variation of the Caro Kann Defense (1 e4 c6 2 d4 d5 3 f3) after the further 2...c6? 3 d4. However, f3 is a bad move after which play continues something like this: 

Icofy base has 100 odd games.

Late 60's a guy named Gedult (same as Gedult's opening???) won 5 games with this.

It's hard to find another win in the next 100 games....

Hmm. So that's how it's supposed to go on. Guess I was lucky my opponent didn't know it as well as you Fianchetto. :D

Also I went Ne2 instead of Bc4.

Ne2 doesn't look very good because it's blocking the bishop on e2. I guess it could work out. I played my computer's white moves though, and it chose Bc4. 

I went Ne2 just to put him on Ng3. I obviously broke a basic opening rule to not move same piece twice, but my reason, as I said, was to make this game as complicated as possible (Nakamura does that sometimes :P). Here is it btw, forgot to post (adnotations I made during the game will be written later - now just mistakes etc.):

Chess.com computer analysis:

Why be afraid of the main lines?  There is a reason they are the main lines.  They aim to put the most pressure on your opponent as possible.

Your opponent played the opening fairly badly. Exchanging the bishop for the g3 knight was an unforgivable positional mistake for someone supposedly 40 rating points from an expert. 

But people know them better. Personally I agree with you though. 

@Monster: It's a tournament so I have 8 games in this position in 1st round and possibly more later. I play for fun and making some awesome puzzles is part of fun! :P

@Fianchetto: Yeah, I also thought that his exchange was very bad, also he himself broke basic opening rules (develop knights before bishops, don't use the same piece twice). I understand his reasoning in that he wanted to make a doubled pawn and weaken my kingside, but it wasn't enough it seems.

What better way to learn the openings than playing against players who actually know those openings.  I happen to be excellent on the black side of the french so if anyone wants to play a french game and learn against me thats cool

Somebody plays my opening. I always crush people playing the French so I'm happy when I see it...

It's just a bad move.  Almost any reasonable development by black should give him more than equality I'd say, already a small plus.  The move does nothing useful for white in the least.  If you want to get out of theory you can play 2.d3 or 2.Qe2

d3 looks fun! Qe2 I don't like.

Qe2 is stupid and d3 just trades the queens leaving you in a worse endgame with no castling rights. or loses a pawn. 

Think of it this way..this transposes to 1. f3 d5 2. e4. Are you sure about this?? Probably e5! is strong for black, where your pawn is awkward on f3.

I don't see any reason why White should be worse - or need to castle for that matter. c2 should be (after c2-c3) a fine square for the King to land on, and White probably has a slight slight edge.

and white probably doesnt have an edge at all. Black has a small advantage. Not enough to win though. 

Why does Black have a small advantage?

I don't suggest Qe2 or d3 as beast at all, but (without looking at a board or anything) they're probably just equal... but what more can you expect form odd ball 2nd moves?

I play the scandanavian by the way and I certainly don't trade queens after 2.d3, that's just equal.  Better to play a move like c6.