Board Game Arena

You are right. This is standard beginning. usual response for this tur is putting your second three two spots next clockwise, so it opponent wants to block it, he will block his own tree

We play mostly on Arena, not realtime. Unfortunately, there are not so many players, and because of this at the beginning you will be losing all the time. At the moment I am top 4 player and novices often complain about impossibility to beat regular players in this game