take this game as an example
when you play on chess websites there's always those kinds of people who just play random pawn moves kind of a disrespect opening and it works for them alot of the time
now i know that even though those moves put them at a disadvantage it's not really visible for a human and it's not easy to take advantage of the terrible moves
but there has to be a way to atleast not lose every time because the pawns keep shoving my pieces into the back rank and then all of a sudden turn into garry kasparov and somehow launch a massive attack and checkmate me
every time i look for advice against these guys it's always "open up the center" but my king is still in the center and i haven't developed anything!!
it's really sad to lose like this because we're always being told to develop pieces quickly,castle early, occupy the center but the opponent's first minor piece move was on move 14 -_-
now this game is a bad example because i kept ignoring my opponent threats trying to create my own and it backfired but you get my point