Modern Scandinavian Defense
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ichiro_bloodmoon
Mar 7, 2018
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#1
What are your thoughts on the Modern Scandinavian? I've been watching chess videos on YouTube and one user known a Kingscrusher went into some lines that look scary as hell and if White isn't careful they're in for a world of hurt. Does the Modern Scandinavian scare you?
Mar 7, 2018
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#2
My thought is that's not scary at all (neither Old nor Modern Scandinavian), especially for white. 
Mar 7, 2018
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#3
Yigor wrote:
Some of these variations scared the hell out of me. 😂😂😂
My thought is that's not scary at all (neither Old nor Modern Scandinavian), especially for white.
Mar 7, 2018
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#4
ichiro_bloodmoon wrote:
Yigor wrote:
My thought is that's not scary at all (neither Old nor Modern Scandinavian), especially for white.
Some of these variations scared the hell out of me. 😂😂😂
Please post the scariest variation here and we'll analyze it. 
ichiro_bloodmoon έγραψε:
That video just presents a cheap trick, and the author "GM TheChessPuzzler" is certainly very far from being an actual GM. The move he suggests (4...Nb4) is just rubbish after 5.a3.
Kingscrusher is a fairly decent English/ Cypriot FM, and has no relation at all with that stupid video.
Mar 7, 2018
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#7
pfren wrote:
I don't know why I typed in Kingscrusher when I meant chesspuzzler. Well there will be someone out there not familiar with the opening who very well could fall for those tricks.
ichiro_bloodmoon έγραψε:
That video just presents a cheap trick, and the author "GM TheChessPuzzler" is certainly very far from being an actual GM. The move he suggests (4...Nb4) is just rubbish after 5.a3.
Kingscrusher is a fairly decent English/ Cypriot FM, and has no relation at all with that stupid video.
OK, point taken.
You are right to assume that this line is scary.
For Black, that is.
Mar 8, 2018
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#9
pfren wrote:
That video just presents a cheap trick, and the author "GM TheChessPuzzler" is certainly very far from being an actual GM. The move he suggests (4...Nb4) is just rubbish after 5.a3.
Stefan Bücker et al found no refutation of it in the Kiel Trap: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5 4.c4 Nb4 thread on ChessPub.
Nebber_Agin έγραψε:
pfren wrote:
That video just presents a cheap trick, and the author "GM TheChessPuzzler" is certainly very far from being an actual GM. The move he suggests (4...Nb4) is just rubbish after 5.a3.
Stefan Bücker et al found no refutation of it in the Kiel Trap: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Nxd5 4.c4 Nb4 thread on ChessPub.
Indeed, Stefan did not find a forced checkmate... but he did claim that 5.a3 Na6 6.Nf3 g6 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.Be2 is plus over minus- not?
Mar 8, 2018
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#11
Not in those very words. His conclusion, AFAICS was
"The odds to hold the draw are not too bad. Yet obviously the resulting position isn't the outcome we've been dreaming of."
So in effect perhaps yes.
It is scary for black clearly
Mar 9, 2018
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#13
HorribleTomato wrote:
It is scary for black clearly
Yes, I can agree that black just scared itself with this 4...Nb4?! Even Mokele Mbembe variation in the Alekhine defense looks better than this one. 
Scary indeed.
Actually not h3 0-0-0 I just noticed!
Mar 12, 2018
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#17
HorribleTomato wrote:
Position seems equal to me anyway, unless I'm completely missing something.
Looks like a blitz dream (the good kind) and a classical nightmare for black.
Anyway position should be equal with correct play.
