Move 6. O-O. That was your pitfall. Your play is too slow and unambitious. An easy d5 break was needed instead of O-O, and white's garbage opening is done for.
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I agree with Shiksa, would have played 6 d5.
Odd and overly aggressive openings used to bother me. Now I kind of enjoy dealing with them. One piece of advice: abandon any idea of punishing the other player and focus on foiling their plan/ambition. If you simply focus on limiting their attack with reasoned moves, you generally find that after their push exhausts itself, the position they are left with is disadvantageous, sometimes even in shambles.
Even after 6...O-O 7. g5, I would probably go 7...Nxe4. Even though Ne8 may be an engine's choice, it isn't aggressive enough for me. QxN then you bring your bishop out to take the forward pawn, arrest his break, and (to me) you have a very playable position.
To be honest, even though it is a common enough move, when I see something like 3 Qf3, my radar goes off.
KnuppelBerry wrote:
I agree with Shiksa, would have played 6 d5.
Odd and overly aggressive openings used to bother me. Now I kind of enjoy dealing with them. One piece of advice: abandon any idea of punishing the other player and focus on foiling their plan/ambition. If you simply focus on limiting their attack with reasoned moves, you generally find that after their push exhausts itself, the position they are left with is disadvantageous, sometimes even in shambles.
Even after 6...O-O 7. g5, I would probably go 7...Nxe4. Even though Ne8 may be an engine's choice, it isn't aggressive enough for me. QxN then you bring your bishop out to take the forward pawn, arrest his break, and (to me) you have a very playable position.
You’re giving white a free piece though, his opening play doesn’t deserve such luxuries, I’d definitely take white there even with the ragged structure.
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I never have problem dealing with the opponent's opening, but I don't understand how I could have defended this game. I couldn't punish him pushing all of his pawns up the board and I don't know how to defend this opening.