scandinavian chess opening

Steve, is this a wind-up?
 

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I have been playing around with the Scandi defense.

Everywhere I go with it, it leads to a solid but cramped position for Black. Bit like the French defense. e4-e6.

You spend far too much time withdrawing that premature Queen move.

My preferred response to e4-d5 is e5 and duck the pawn swap. Gets White an advanced strong double central pawn structure and easy rouitine piece development. After that, Black is even more horribly cramped.

In other words, whatever you do as Black, you are always behind in something.
 
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Sometimes you must take time with difficult positions.

I can see where this is going. I am going to attack you on f7 with a Knight and Bishop, the weakest square on the board. You must defend your weak pawn on d4.

This is a new game to me, TBH. But looks like fun.