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A 0-0-0 game excluding my rather funny looking second move

OTB game played against a 1400. The ending blunder XD.
en.lichess.org/QHfL2OWX

The second move was me trying something totally offbeat and random for the sake of randomness. It does remind me of Carlsen-Nakamura played in Bilbao this year except it was a Sicilian.
until 5...Nxd5?! your opp played this well. Then you played it well.
My 2 cents...

5... Nxd5 is ok. But 6... Nxc3 is incoherent with 3... c6.

Bb4-Bxc3?

18... Nd4!. Exchanges would favour Black.

20... exd4 and 21... Nc5 leads to nothing. Better was 20... Qb6 and for example 21. Qc1 Qb3!? 22. dxe5 Nc5

I didnt' like Qh5-Qe2. I would try to exchange that Bishop (Be4), play Bc3, prepare d4 (->d5), press a5.

18. Bc3 Nd4 19. Ra2 Qd7 20. Rb2 (White is pressing the Q-side, while Black has no clear counterplay.)
@okgo "I didnt' like Qh5-Qe2." Yeh after I played it I was thinking why did I do that... My idea for it was I was attempting to provoke g6. Instead I got his bishop to go to a more secure spot. I wanted some more weakening moves that I might be able to punish later. I did see and expect Nd4 but apparently he was having none of it. The opening was particularly bad for him I felt after Nx and totally expected to be cramped after pawn takes. I told him after the game to take with the pawn in that case and we looked at some other basic lines . My favorite move of the game was 16. a4!! I wanted to keep his knight away from a4 and attempt to trade off my isolated pawn (one of my two weaknesses that I had in the position). Thanks for the tips okgo!
I don't know if 16. a4 was that good. Playing a2-a4 doesn't make easier a possible exchange because of 16... a5! fixing your weakness. Was Na4 really dangerous? I thought Black played Nc5 thinking on Ne6-Nd4.

Had Black played Nd4 Bxd4 exd4 Q moves Qb6 (then Qb4 or Qc5) I'd rather have the pawn on a2 than on a4.
Meanwhile i found that already 3....c6 is inaccurate (because of 3.d4 +=). Best is 3...Bc5 (the Ne2 does not attack e5). If white then plays d4 then ...exd4 ..0-0 and ..Re8 building up pressure on e4, and if white plays g3?! like in the game, black has ..Ng4!, idea d4 exd4 Nxd4 Nxf2 Kxf2 Qf6+ Ke3 Nc6 Nce2 Ne5! Kd2 Nf3+ Kc3 (Nxf3 Qxf3 Bh3 Be3+ Kc3 Bxc1+ -+) Bxd4 Nxd4 c5 -/+

So 3...Bc5 is some kind of refutation of 2.Ne2, in the sense that black gets a comfortable game.

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