I commonly deal with scandinavian as white. Is there anyway to combat this?
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GM_MysteriousEgg
Jun 26, 2022
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Jun 26, 2022
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#5
I'm surprised people still play the scandinavian as black. It's not a good opening.
Take the pawn.
The queen will come out and recapture on D5
attack the queen by developing your knight to C3
take it from there
Jun 27, 2022
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GM_MysteriousEgg wrote:
I forgot to say, i often lose when playing against Scandinavian.
In your last 100 games you've had this as white 6 times and you only lost once.
And you only lost because twice you moved a piece onto a square where you opponent could capture it for free.
Jun 27, 2022
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#8
Caruana and Carlsen are doing it all wrong in that game tygxc showed.
White wants a king side attack (instead of Caruana’s queen side play). And Magnus should have played …Qa5 instead of …Qd6 of course.
Regards,
Team Scandi
White wants a king side attack (instead of Caruana’s queen side play). And Magnus should have played …Qa5 instead of …Qd6 of course.
Regards,
Team Scandi
2.d4! of course.
#8
Well here is a game with 3...Qa5
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2072900
#9
Of course not 2 d4?
Jun 27, 2022
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#11
JohnNapierSanDiego wrote:
I'm surprised people still play the scandinavian as black. It's not a good opening.
Take the pawn.
The queen will come out and recapture on D5
attack the queen by developing your knight to C3
take it from there
yes black will literally pass a move when their queen is attacked, every opening is dumb if played badly
Black has not lost a tempo simply because his queen has been attacked. White spent that tempo playing exd5 and now white has 1 piece developed and so does black.
AtaChess68 wrote:
Caruana and Carlsen are doing it all wrong in that game tygxc showed.
White wants a king side attack (instead of Caruana’s queen side play). And Magnus should have played …Qa5 instead of …Qd6 of course.
Regards,
Team Scandi
White wants a king side attack (instead of Caruana’s queen side play). And Magnus should have played …Qa5 instead of …Qd6 of course.
Regards,
Team Scandi
Well... either Carlsen and Caruana don't know what they are doing, or you.
Boy, this is a very tough choice... isn't it?
#12
Black must lose a tempo to move the queen again, usually ...c6 and ...Qc7.
That is not bad: black can afford to lose a tempo.
Jun 27, 2022
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#15
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
JohnNapierSanDiego wrote:
It's not a good opening.
Yes, it is.
No, it's not.
#15
Yes it is. Example:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1768345
Maybe it's no good but I fianchetto the kingside bishop, Nge2 0-0
play d3 instead of d4
Play Rb1 and try to play b4 and b5
<<I commonly deal with scandinavian as white. Is there anyway to combat this?>>
To combat you dealing with the Scandinavian? You opponents should try to play it better.
The Scandinavian is perfectly good but not very adventurous for black. Play 2. d4, maybe. A nice gambit for white. Learn the Blackmar-Diemar and at your level you will win EVERY game with white.
