Friend plays this bizarre opening, refutation please

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DeepBlueDragon
ABSOLUTELY annoying. Some times he plays the "Light Chainsaw" variation, which is just the chainsaw on light squares.
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Is there any devastating traps for this kind of setup, that will ensure that this opening never gets attempted again? He plays this as White or Black, and randomizes move sequence every time. As for me, some of the usual more sane openings are inconvenient to be played by me, and his opening manages to saw straight through my game.
At first thought, it appears like a fiasco for my opposite-colored bishop and/or queen, but sooner or later his saw advances, and the hurried counterstrike I erect usually ricochets straight off it.
Being both fairly powerful at blundering up, our games have an extremely high unstable rate of idiocy.
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This problem is drilling into my head. Please help me find a tougher defence or countertrap, preferably one which ends in a hash tagged exclamation mark!
 
 
notmtwain
DeepBlueDragon wrote:
ABSOLUTELY annoying. Some times he plays the "Light Chainsaw" variation, which is just the chainsaw on light squares.
?!!
Is there any devastating traps for this kind of setup, that will ensure that this opening never gets attempted again? He plays this as White or Black, and randomizes move sequence every time. As for me, some of the usual more sane openings are inconvenient to be played by me, and his opening manages to saw straight through my game.
At first thought, it appears like a fiasco for my opposite-colored bishop and/or queen, but sooner or later his saw advances, and the hurried counterstrike I erect usually ricochets straight off it.
Being both fairly powerful at blundering up, our games have an extremely high unstable rate of idiocy.
?!!
This problem is drilling into my head. Please help me find a tougher defence or countertrap, preferably one which ends in a hash tagged exclamation mark!
 
 

You have only played a couple of games here- neither of which saw that opening configuration.   Please post a game where the strategy was used against you. It will be easier to suggest moves.

The basic solution would be to use your pawns to force an opening in the lines and/or to use the holes that he creates with that formation to post your pieces. (In the diagram you posted, there are "holes" at a4, c4, e4 and g4, any of which will provide a nice home for your knights.)

Perhaps you should take a few chess lessons on understanding the concept of weak and strong squares. There seems to be a Chess Mentor course which will introduce these concepts to you: 

Weak Color Complexes Explained

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Being sensitive to weak color complexes provides extremely important insight into positional and tactical chess play. It often shapes the entire middlegame struggle, and informs the decisions made as early as the opening phase of the game. Yet many players don't even know what a "weak color complex" is; and many others have heard of it, but partly wonder if it's an artificial abstraction invented by secret grand mages of chess's professional society in order to cloud their art in obscurity.

But weak color complexes most definitely do exist, and-- if you have already acquired some basic calculation skills, and put a serious dent in the frequency of your blunders-- you need to have some idea of what they are in order to get a grasp on the true nature of chess.

 

This exhortation is followed by an invitation: work your way through the introductory course offered here, and I promise you will:

 

- Know what a weak color complex is;

 

- Be able to look at a position and determine whether it has a weak color complex as a feature;

 

- Know a couple ways to create a weak color complex;

 

- Know a couple ways to exploit a weak color complex, and the sad sod saddled with it.

 

Plus, you'll have a better eye for when to look for tactical blows, you'll become wittier, fitter, and smarter!

https://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course?id=339

AIM-AceMove

Forget openings. Play normal developening moves and castle. Make sure you don't give away free pieces and capture the ones your opponent will offer you.

ChessOfPlayer
AIM-AceMove wrote:

Forget openings. Play normal developening moves and castle. Make sure you don't give away free pieces and capture the ones your opponent will offer you.

Best advice for his this situation.  

Do this against your friends genious opening and you will be fully developed for the middle game and shoot some pawns up and open lines (exhange pawns to activate you developed pieces) .

ArgoNavis

Put a knight protected by a pawn in  c4, e4 or g4.

Or exchange his light squared bishop for one of your knights, then use your Lsquared bishop to murder him.

And yeah, follow opening principles.

Diakonia

Ok...here it is.  This big secret to defeating this pile of steaming poo.

1. Control the center.

2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center.

3. Castle.

4. Connect your rooks.

Dont spread this secret around.  Its valuable and if it fell into the  wrong hands could destroy chess as we know it.

Diakonia
Lasker1900 wrote:

I think the key to defeatin g this opening is: MAKE SOME MOVES! You have allowed your opponent to make at least 8 moves while you presumably have done nothing but move your knights out and back again. This can't be a good strategy!

I dont understand why your rating isnt higher???

congrandolor

b6 followed  by Ba6, exchanging his white-square bishop, then his white  squares will be horribly weak

Sqod
DamonevicSmithlov wrote:

Chainsaw variation isn't as accurate a name as Swiss Cheese variation.

"Hey, what opening do you like to play? Oh, I like the Swiss Cheese."

I like the name "Four Holes Where Black Can Outpost a Knight Variation" better. Smile