Dominated in 15 moves!

This recent correspondence game of mine, I have to say, was just weird.

My opponent tried some kind of opening system I've never seen before for black, caused some awkward king placement for me, but then as he ran out of steam, I proceeded to promptly checkmate him!

Check it out:

its like a budapest gambit without you playing c4

I see...

Not too familiar with that gambit, but I'll look it up, thanx!

Yeah. I play the Budapest a lot. Its actually pretty solid, not many people know it, but it gives black lots of chances to screw up, so I have to pay attention in the opening (move order matters a lot for black).

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5!? 3. dxe5 Ng4 is the basic premise. White usually responds either f4, Bf4, or Nf3. Black can get the pawn back, so its not actually a gambit, but usually there are more important things to go for, and white keeps the pawn but gets awkward development.

A "Budapest" where white has played Nc3 instead of c4 is just much better for white. Nice refutation.

So is that the name of black's second move then - the Budapest gambit?

No, the Budapest Gambit is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5. Your game just looks similar, but it's not the Budapest.

2.Nc3 is a much more useful move for White in these positions, so it doesn't make much sense to play 2...e5 after that, in my opinion.