is scandinavian a good defence

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I have a boy names atharva in class who always play scam

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sorry Scandinavian defence and I always loose his rating is 1476

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sorry Scandinavian defence and I always loose his rating is 1476

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It will surprise your opponent. But I think it is not good against a better player.

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The scandinavian defense has not been refuted or found unsound. However, it doesn't score as well as some others in master play.

Since it is a less common defense it make a good way to surprise your opponent as @arul_kumar pointed out. So if the player playing it, plays it a lot it can make for an easy advantage. It sounds like this is the case with your friend he plays it a lot and knows it, but you don't so this works to his advantage.

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It's fine.

It is not theoretically or perhaps practically as strong as other openings, but it's not bad.

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but why can anyone tell proper sequence of play

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It is played at master level. If you download history for some of the bigger tournaments, you'll notice it is played often but not nearly as often as 1...e5.

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ParshGala5 wrote:

I have a boy names atharva in class who always play scam

I play it, and sscore well with it.  If white pushes the e-pawn, i get a French Advance.  If white takes the pawn, i play 2.Nf6, and look forward to an Icelandic Gambit.

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I_Am_Second wrote:

[...] If white pushes the e-pawn, i get a French Advance. [...]

After 1.e4 d5 2.e5 you can play Bf5 with better chances than you'd have in the Advance French.

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I want a good defence against Scandinavian

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I want a good defence against Scandinavian

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People play the Scandivanian to avoid their opponents` opening preparation. 

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How 'bout Artic? Antartican?

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ok.. I know good defence against Scandinavian but I want middle game oositional play

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ok...

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i play scande regularly and have quite good results in OTB tourneys

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steve_bute wrote:
I_Am_Second wrote:

[...] If white pushes the e-pawn, i get a French Advance. [...]

After 1.e4 d5 2.e5 you can play Bf5 with better chances than you'd have in the Advance French.

Yep, that works too.  I just have a preference for ...c5

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I want to play with white