I Hate the Scandinavian. How to crush?

I’m an aggressive player generally speaking but for some reason I dislike the Scandinavian intensely. Wish Levy would make a “how to Crush —> that opening” on it. Lol

Play 1. d4.

Like this:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2072900 

I don’t study openings a lot so I can’t tell you book or theory but I am a Scandi player so I can tell you things from my perspective. We are about the same rating. All I say is for 3. … Qa5, because that’s what I play.

- White has a trap with b5 you can YouTube it [edit: b4 not b5]. If black knows what to do they are ok, but if not you get the crushing you want;
- If white plays Qf3 my plans change and I don’t really like that. But be careful, the black queen is safe, the white queen is not.
- What I like about the Scandi is that opponents usually spend a lot of time in the opening. I think they (1) are worried about blacks queen on the queen side and blacks bishop on the king side. Looks like fried liver. Advise for white: no fried liver, so don’t worry, develop normally). (2) white hopes to attack and maybe even trap my queen. You can’t. Don’t bother, develop normally. It’s more, I hope you will chase my queen because it helpes me organizing my king side attack.
- Speaking of a king side attack: that is my plan and a weakness for me. I want to set up a queen-bishop battery. I don’t have a good plan if white castles queen side.
- Last: white can disrupt my pawn structure on the king side but that helps me. I get an open file and can strengthen my king side attack. In that case I castle queen side and that ís a weak spot. If white is prepared to pawn storm my queen side I am in trouble.

Not really a real crushing plan for white but maybe this helps a bit. Do you have one or two specific games were you had troubles?

Play solid vs scandanavian. Then the aggression is neutralized.

Wow.. Really good game.

That's how i respond to scandinavian too but I haven't studied it before, it is just following the opening principles for me.

Unfortunately, the Scandinavian is a sound opening. You can't "crush" it.

3.Nc3

That will get them moving over to the e-file to threaten the king. Then just put a minor piece in front of your king and they'll usually back away. If they don't, 5.Nf6 should do it.

This is what I do, and it usually works just fine. My trick when facing the Scandinavian is to make my third move a pre-move. It's not much, but there's a *certain* amount of psychology there in showing them you know they're going to take that pawn with their queen. It implies you know what they'll do for the next few moves.

NOTE: I'm low-rated, and so are my opponents. This probably isn't that sound in general.

every decent player does qa5, qd8 or maybe qd6

The first Scandinavian game at a World Championship was Game 14 in 1995.

Kasparov offered a draw on move 16 because he realized he had been outplayed in the opening. In this position the engine evaluates to -1.12

After thinking for a few minutes Anand refused, but ran into time trouble at the end of the game and was forced to play some rushed moves. On move 40 he made a blunder that he realized one move later and resigned.

After the game Kasparov was asked about his draw offer and said "I just wanted to see how long it took him to respond. It took Anand several minutes to refuse the draw. I therefore knew that he was not as confident as he should have been. His refusal should have been instantaneous."

After the game, Kasparov criticized the result of the O.J. Simpson trial (the game was played on the day O.J Simpson was acquitted) and then criticized Anand's mistakes in the game: "Anand's errors can be explained because he has abandoned the most vital elements of his personality, those which define his immense talent. His play is not consistent because he is not playing in consonance with his own character."

I guess that's true. The Explorer backs it up. My bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZLsf21tGk

The tennison gambit is a useful tactic for low-level games

control your emotions or they control you.

attacks are more effective with proper development.

don't throw haymakers... pick your punches. 👊

I really appreciate the sound advice and literal action steps this post received. Thank you!
P.S. “Crush” is term I took from Levy’s vid descriptions. I misunderstand nothing about the discipline required to be strong against various openings, and I’m well aware Scandinavian is a solid approach lol, I think I’m just intimidated by it!

YOu could always play the ICBM gambit, but thats pretty bad if your opponent knows what they are doing.

I always say it is, but the Lichess engine calls it an inaccuracy. But it is sound. 

Why do you "hate" it? Is it because you often lose to it or is there some other reason?