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    Nice game. The Scandinavian is almost always a lot of fun, especially in fast time controls.

       This is not one of my games. This is a game I saw a few weeks ago in chess24. Black plays this same line and then gambits a second pawn with 4...e5!? So white grabs the second pawn on b7, and then black's LSB turns out to be the game beast. Probably not a sound line, but stuff like this sometimes works in blitz.

     Here's My most recent upset turnaround come from behind clutch!!!... idk if that's the appropriate synonym you can decide that yourself. Enjoy https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/25LMqX7a8n

I got the nice smothered mate in a different way.

On lichess that line where you sacrifice 2 pawns actually has better score than the line that I play (sacrificing only 1 pawn), but according to stockfish my line is better than the other line (in my line black is better despite being down a pawn), while if you sacrifice 2 pawns stockfish says black has no advantage, it is equal. This is a rare opening where you sacrifice 2 pawns and you even do it as black, yet stockfish says it is equal. The reason why this opening 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 isn't popular at high level is because of the move 3.d4, white has ways to give back the pawn and have a dominant center, space advantage and a dominant position. Grabbing pawns and trying to be up 1 or 2 pawns is not a sound way of playing against this opening.

   Totally agree. I suspect the reason the double pawn sac scores well in lichess is because it's tried only occasionally by very aggressive lunatics against questionable opponents. Website DBs can be a bit misleading.

    Of course, 3.d4 is pretty much the standard reply. But white can play 3.c4 and sometimes get a decent position (often it just transposes into a Caro-Kann or QGD), your game not withstanding. But you're right: the Scandinavian is like some old Benoni where white usually gets into a lot of trouble trying to hang on to the extra pawn.

   In this game, black mixes up the move order a bit, then gets in the c6 move. No second pawn giveaway, though, but it still doesn't work out too well. Not a spectacular game, but I get a terrific attack even though a piece down.....

A quickie

     Nice. 

2.Nf3 maybe not a mistake. I've seen this crazy gambit tried quite often in blitz games. It can be tricky. I blundered into this trappy line myself a few months ago. Then again, I'm not a 2200+ player....... 

Mmm maybe you're right in the sense that my rival planed to move 2.Nf3? from the get-go. But it is a mistake nonetheless 

     A win is a win, even if black did miss Qh4 like a million times. 

Any time you play these gambit lines with f4 (KG, Vienna gambit), Nf3 is a good follow-up, to keep the black queen out of h4. Black sometimes tries Be7, to renew the threat to check on h4.

   Here's one of Alekhine's games where he fends off an attack against the Vienna gambit, with black using this Be7 maneuver. It's not really a miniature, but it's only 29 moves. There's also no date or event shown, so it may have been just an off-hand game. Still, it's fun to review. I haven't run this through an engine. I trust Alexander made a lot of good moves.....

   A funny game with a strange opening. 2.Nf3 is called a reversed Alekhine. I don't think I ever saw it before.....

Jesus that was brutal, nicely played

Not exactly smothered mate. It's called "suffocation mate" IIRC. But regardless, that queen sac was amazing

I once faced it against a WNM in a simul.

Finally played a game worth sharing. It had been a while.

    What a funny game! Black's bishop retreats from c6 to e8 so the knight can't capture it. Then the knight gives itself away on that same square, and black gets mated. Very nice!

    Wow! How weird 19.gxf8=Q loses big time for white, while the simple Qh6 is 'game over' for black. Nice game.