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Well any way before I finish I promised you an aggressive line.
Today the line I have for you is called the Short Variation.
If I am not mistaken GM Nigel Short helped create this line!
Yeah well for a line Nigel Short helped create I'm pretty sure I've played over some Capablanca games as White that featured the same moves.

Well any way before I finish I promised you an aggressive line.
Today the line I have for you is called the Short Variation.
If I am not mistaken GM Nigel Short helped create this line!
Yeah well for a line Nigel Short helped create I'm pretty sure I've played over some Capablanca games as White that featured the same moves.
Well after your comment.
I went to check to see and I honestly don't know if that line is called the Short variation or not now.
I have deleted my whole post so that others are not mislead.
Thank you for pointing that out.

The_King_Fischer wrote:
I've learned that blacks aim, if he chooses to give a check with the queen and you just develop your bishop, his aim is to trade as many pieces off as possible to make up his lack of development. If you are white just try and avoid trading too many pieces, but I do find it annoying that black is trying for a draw at the very beginning of the opening...
I have to disagree about Black's aim to draw the game w/ the Scandinavian. It can be very tactical especially if Black continues after White exd5 w/ Nf6 followed by c6
It wasn't my intention to claim that every game where black, instead of playing the Scandinavian correctly, opts to give a check with his queen instead, and later trying to build an attack, but failing myserably because the king cannot be checkmated by the queen alone and if you keep trading off the pieces you develop to help your queen you are just going to leave yourself with only you queen as the soul developed piece of your army. I am just merely saying that that is what usually happens when I play someone who opts, instead of moving his queen to a5 like he should, try and gain the tempo that he lost with a queen check. A grand master told me that that isn't a good way to play, but to each his own. I am not sure where you intend to move your queen to in your variation of the queen rush opening I have often come across by people who play this way. e4 d5 exd5 Qxd5 Nc3, and then a queen check to gain tempo, but it doesn't really gain tempo, as white could just develop another piece while he is defending. What I was saying is that usually in this type of opening black will try for cheapos with a queen and a minor piece, but what I am saying is that white already has pieces developed, and black doesn't, and if white develops correctly, black will not be able to continue with his plan to win with cheapos in the opening, and at the same time white is winning on the race of developing pieces, and usually whites pieces become better developed than blacks are, and more often than not black realizes this and just merely trades of his pieces, losing more time as he is spending time to recapture a piece he just developed to attack your developed piece, which will be taken by white, and then black will have to spend a tempo grabing back your piece, and then the move is to white. Black could try for a pawn storm, however, I do not see anyway it can be successful as white has more than enough time to defend his position. You would have to show me your specefic variation as I do not know where you moved your queen in your variation of what I call the all in queen rush. What I am saying is usually the minor pieces keep getting traded off, and black could try for a pawn storm, but he is behind in development and if enough pieces get traded, he won't have enough to finish the job. That's why I say it's drawish. Black tries to for cheapos, white just merely develops develops develops and defends, black responds by trading off whites good pieces but at the same time gets more behind in development and loses attacking potential with the trades. Black could continue to attack but more often than not his attack isn't going to work. I would expect that is what black is attending to do in this opening, attack, as he opts to use an opening that develops the queen very early, to a seemingly vulnerable spot for white, however, the threats can be easily parried.
I hope everyone who reads this realizes I am in no way undermining the conventional Scandinavian as black, as I am not talking about the move Qa5, which is a good reply. What I am talking about, is when black opts to gain back his lost tempo unsuccessfully with a queen check.
Personally I think anyone who's played enough chess will know that blacks aim to " win with cheapo's by either a queen + minor piece early checkmate," or an eventual pawn storm after castling kingside, aiding by his queen and minor pieces, doesn't understand the simple concept that if white just develops and defends his attack simply will not work, because too many pieces will be traded off, and his attack is not fast enough, being underdeveloped, giving white time to bring other pieces to defend against this rush. I would compare this opening to an early zergling rush in the original star craft. Anyone who is trying to win with a cheapo simply isn't a good chess player. But to each to their own opinion, it just so happens that a grand master agrees with me. At least I am implying he does, as he said playing this way simply isn't a good way to play, with the queen check after Nc3 to attempt to gain his lost tempo back, however like I said, this doesn't really gain a tempo back, as white could just merely develop his light squared bishop to e2. There are cheapo tactics that could be used against someone who isn't really good or hasn't seen this type of opening before, but these are just one trick pony tactics, easy to parry if white develops correctly. For a long time I did not know the simple way to defend against this though, as I play blitz and it's hard to think when you play blitz, but after analyzing this game on my own without time constraints I found the easy solution. The fact of the matter is quick attacks don't often work as black, being that white, with the extra tempo, plus the added tempo that black gives away freely in this opening, has more than enough time to defend against an easy to see looming threat. But maybe you don't want to be a good chess player. Maybe you just want to try for cheapo's forever. good luck with that.
I challenge you to come up with a winning tactic for black, when he opts to instead of moving his queen to a5, gives a check with the queen to gain an imaginary tempo. You said you disagree with me but didn't really show me anything to convince me that there is something to what you say. Personally, I can't think of any reason why you would waste more time with c6, as it blocks your knight from developing to that square, and also just wastes time. It does block that diagonal, but white isn't fiancettoing his bishop in this opening, he is parrying a pre-mature attack by moving his light squared bishop to e2... You would have to enlighten me to the purpose of a move like c6, wasting a yet another tempo, as black, and how you can make something out of developing your knight to f6, without just merely trading it by wasting more time by moving that same knight again to trade off that knight with whites knight of f3, as I do not see how that knight can add to the attack on f6 with the knight on f3. Perhaps your aim is to trade off your light squared bishop for the white knight on f3. Or push your pawns to unseat the knight. Either of those strategies do not come with the weakness created by those attempts, but I'd like to know what your actual ideas are, as I am not sure you actually have a follow up.
