I personally like 3. Nf3. Then black has to come up with some convoluted way to defend his e pawn. Development would be 2-0 for white. Black would have to do additional legwork to control d5.
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 c6?
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Apr 23, 2012
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Thanks for the comments.
According to what I found already:
a. Best is 3.d4! +/- because Black has cut off the natural defending field for his b8-Knight by playing c7-c6.
b. 3.Pf3 += is fine too because of the development, like zirtoc said.
c. 3.f4? and 3.Lc4? should be bad. Both allow Black to play d7-d5 immediately, for example: 3.Lc4? d5! 4.exd5 b5 5.Lb3 b4 6.Pce2 cxd5 =.
During the past 2 years I had to play 1 time in a tornmentgame and 16 times in blitzgames against the ugly move 2...c6?. I won 12 and lost 5 of them. This is the most recently (10') game.
Off course, there's no or maybe just a very little theory about that move. All contributions are welcome.