Why are everyone's pawns all over the place?? :P Did he do things that required you to mess up your pawn structure? His is not too bad by comparison, though clearly his moving his pawns up to give your knight & queen a space to slide into wasn't so good.
BTW, Wikipedia for the win. I knew I'd seen this opening before, but it does indeed have a name: the Scandinavian defense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Defense
Primarily, it is usually a bad idea for black, in my experience. When people use it against me, I simply run their queen around the board while developing my pieces, and that usually leaves me a lot better off. The Marshall Gambit is an interesting variation, though. My dad used to like to use this against me, and he'd pull it off.
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K x Q! Woot!
Why are everyone's pawns all over the place?? :P Did he do things that required you to mess up your pawn structure? His is not too bad by comparison, though clearly his moving his pawns up to give your knight & queen a space to slide into wasn't so good.
BTW, Wikipedia for the win. I knew I'd seen this opening before, but it does indeed have a name: the Scandinavian defense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Defense
Primarily, it is usually a bad idea for black, in my experience. When people use it against me, I simply run their queen around the board while developing my pieces, and that usually leaves me a lot better off. The Marshall Gambit is an interesting variation, though. My dad used to like to use this against me, and he'd pull it off.