VERY Unconventional Opening?

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Avatar of Dman4chess

If anyone would like to help with this chess opening, and what I could of done better?

I open with d4 all of the time! I have NEVER NEVER seen this before.

This guy broke ALL of the rules of chess! c pawn first? Q out on 2nd move? More pawns than needed in first 10 moves? I could not believe what the hell this guy was playing? 

 

Was HE Intentionally play non conventional, unorthodox chess because of the time limit? That is not what BLITZ chess is supposed to be! Granted, you're supposed to keep your opponent guessing! But Unorthodox chess of today's chess world? Has it come to that? 

 

People can't play conventional? People suck so much playing chess under reasonable openings they have to keep their opponent playing normally by playing Unconventional? 

 

I don't know what to think... but any commentation or analysis of this game would be great! Thanks! 

 

Avatar of Sqod

I'm going to assume you already know that fast chess of any kind is where players pull out the weirdest moves on you, to see if you can think on your feet, which equates to having good *general* knowledge of chess principles.

As for this specific game, here's how I would have approached it...

1...c6 Hmm. He just wants to transpose into a Caro-Kann Defense after I play 2. e4. I know the Caro-Kann pretty well, so I'll oblige him and play 2. e4.

2...Qb6 Queen definitely out too early. I must have a refutation involving chasing his queen off. I would have considered first 3. c5, then any queen checks just give me a lead in development: 3...Qb4+ 4. Qd2 Qxd2+ Bxd2 and I'm ahead in development, or 3...Qa5+ 4. Bd2 and his queen gets chased off. Anything else, like 3...Qc7 or 3...Qd8 puts me ahead in development due to his retreat.

3...f6 Great: He just gave me the opportunity to get not just a center pawn duo, but a center pawn *trio*, with 4. e4!

4...g5 Ooh, yeah, maybe a chance for the Damiano's Defense trick: 5. Nxg5 fxg5 6. Qxh5+ Kd8. I'd lose 1-2 material points but that might be OK in Blitz if he can't castle and his queen is misplaced. Otherwise I'll just get my center trio with 5. e4, avoid material loss, and plan to move my knight to h5 if he chases it off via ...g4.

5...d5 Ooh, yeah, I win a pawn. 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Nxd5, and threaten his queen besides.

10...Bf5. He just lost another tempo and gave me the center besides. 11. e4 dxe4 12. fxe4 Bg4 13. Be2.

Etc.

 

Avatar of Cherub_Enjel

What you need to do is practice taking material for free when your opponent gives it to you not even 6 moves into the game.

Avatar of corum

Honestly it is ridiculous to complain that you lost because your opponent played unconventional/weak moves. The point is that if your opponent did that, and you were as good as chess as you think you are, you would win easily. If you understand the opening (rather than just memorising it) you can easily take advantage of your opponent's poor moves. In this game you just left your king wide open and black took advantage.

 

Avatar of pfren

Well... if you lose in about 20 moves when your opponent begins with 1...c6, 2...Qb6, 3...f6 and 4...g5, despite your opponent missing a win of rook+queen a few moves before the end, this means that your chess skills are still severely limited, and openings should be the very last thing to blame.

Stop playing blitz and bullet, and get serious.

Avatar of JayeshSinhaChess
 
  Saw this thread and thought of copying the unconventional moves of black, even though white's opening moves were completely different. Quickly found myself in an unplayable and totally lost mess. However, the moves were so unconventional that the opponent totally lost his/her wits and completely blundered the win away.