A response to the Ponziani Opening

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catkeson

Over the last couple months of playing, I have noticed that a lot of players play the ponziani opening against me when I play e5.  I have fallen for all of the traps and made all of the mistakes you can make against the opening.  However, over the last couple months I have learned from my mistakes and pieced together a response with black that confuses oponents and results in a pretty decent position.  I have won countless games using the opening and thought I would share because everyone hates losing to tricks in the opening.  

Here is an example game I played recently against a pretty solid blitz player.
 
tmkroll

This is actually a line of the Spanish Game, the Classical Varation or Cordel Variation. I think you're tranposing to the Moller or Achangel setup in both of these games. I'm not sure. I don't play it. I think White should play h3 to stop your plan. The Ponziani is 3. c3.

GreenCastleBlock

Maybe you should have named this thread "a response to the Ruy Lopez."  This suggestion makes absolutely no sense against the Ponziani; White has no reason to play Bb5 when he can just play 4.d4 straightaway.