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Before I start, please excuse my terminology. I'm just a beginner.
Okay so I seem to get getting more and more interested in chess, (I'm a complete beginner and you will see from some of the moves I made). I played a friend and I beat him a few times. He went home and practiced and came back with some crazy tactic and he beat me twice in a row with the same opening, which pisses me off lol.
This is approximately how the first game started (I am black):
It didn't go exactly like that but you get the idea. He basically just overloaded f7 the only way for me to not get check mated was to lose my queen early on. I kept playing because I knew that he learned this opening from somewhere and in an open game I'm normally better. But he had so many good pieces out that I was always playing defence the whole game. He had so many pins and double attacks. After that first game I realized that he was targeting f7 and I tried to pre-defend it by moving my black knight to h6. But still, it felt like a wasted move and his overload was way too much. I was playing defence from early on and was literally not able to develop any pieces, not even pawns. He ended up taking my Queen a bit later in the game. Here's what the begining was like (again I am black)
That's basically how he starts every game now lol. Pawn to e4 or e5, brings out the knights, followed by the bishops, then castles, and then moves his rook to e1, then he will always try to attack f7 or c7 with a knight, bishop and the queen. It pisses me off because I know he only wins because of the good opening. If I can just find a good opening to survive the early attack I believe I will beat him 9 out of 10 times.
So here are my questions:
1. What is the name of the opening he is using
2. What is a good opening for black to defend against
3. When I'm white, knowing that he always opens like that, what's a good opening I can use to trap him or put myself in a better position to force him to at least think before moving his pieces during his opening
Thank you!
Sounds like he is just using basic opening principles. The only way to beat them is to learn them yourself.
The video series "Building Habits" by GM Aman Hambleton of the Chessbrahs will show you how to at least get a good game.