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50a1⁝ Position 1

I like to play the Scandinavian in bullet. After a few moves the I thought that my black position looked pretty bad. But the dark-square weaknesses in White’s camp turned out to be the key. I won the game because of that, and I was surprised after the game that the engine evaluation already shows that this position is almost lost for white (-2.8)

The plan is simple. Trade the knights (needs to be exchanged as pawn f5 is also a move in some variants + queen in some variants is overloaded defending g4 and d4), then go for Qg5, Be5, Qf4, Qh6 and start squeezing the dark squares with mate threats.

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50a⁝ Scandinavian Defense