Why is Scandinavian so hot right now?
I'm ~1400 lichess bullet and in the last few days almost every game I'm facing the scandi. Did someone come out with a new video about it or something?
Posted Sep 2, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC
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Idk but I've seen it being used a ton throughout my entire chess journey so far. I don't know what makes it so popular, I guess the game plan is pretty easy? It keeps the game pretty simple unless you go into some really specific lines, so that's probably why it's popular among beginners.
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I don't know what makes it so popular
As a low elo noob on chess dot com I definitely see a lot of people playing the Scandinavian and I get the feeling they're mainly just doing it as a "legitimate" way to get their queen out early. I'll frequently play Nc3 and have my opponent pause for like 30 seconds and then play Qe5+, so they clearly don't actually know any of the theory.
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Might be a time control thing. I play Scandi all the time in bullet and blitz, but rarely in other lengths.
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It's a decent opening at the lower levels. Simple plan. Immediatly mess up your opponent's plans for the opening. After move 3 or 4 just play chess - possibly down a tempo, but that doesnt mean much at my level anyway.
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i feel the same about the king's gambit when im black, mid 1300s chess.com, did a streamer or smth popularize it?
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Nepo has played the king’s gambit in two recent games, tho I doubt most online players are following tourneys that closely.
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idk but I feel like know one really knows how to play it and I've been wrecking havoc ~1100 lichess blitz
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its very in line with pre-moving move one so d4 d5 e4 e5 nf3 d5 is all the same
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Not much theory, easy plan, but the tradeoff is worse position from the get-go.