Scotch Game help

What's a backward d-pawn?

Originally posted by mrjonesvich321
What's a backward d-pawn?

Originally posted by ih8sens
actually.. i'm really really good as white against the french... and I totally suck as black.. I usually hope for c4,

sometimes it's good to call the black bluff.

Game 4156659 - This game is the reason I don't like the french... the only reason I play e6 before f5 is because I really want to find a good gambit in the line... I'll probably go excl ...[text shortened]...

edit - about that game I posted... e5 wasn't the blunder... Bxh7+ won for white anyways.

Originally posted by mrjonesvich321
What's a backward d-pawn?

Originally posted by tomtom232
how do you play Bxh7+ when there is a pawn at f5?

Originally posted by ih8sens
this is assuming f5 wasn't played... many suggested one of many PxP's in an effort by black to open the game up, i'm just showing that it won't work.

Originally posted by mrjonesvich321
Hey I have a quick question regarding the Scotch Game. I play this opening whenever I can, but I found that often black would recapture my knight in the middle, which of course I follow by capturing black's knight with my queen, placing it on d4, right smack in the middle of the board. Now I know that technically that's an advantage for me because i ...[text shortened]... Nxd4?
5. Qxd4 c5
I always get really nervous whenever my queen's out early, any ideas?

Originally posted by ih8sens
c5 is best in that position IMO. You gotta pressure that queen, don't let it sit there.

Thanks guys, this has been really helpful. I find I'm not encountering Nxd4 for black so often any more, but now at least I know what to do if c5 comes up.