What are my options
Your options are:
1. Follow opening principles.
a. Fight for control of the central squares d4-e5-d5-e5.
b. Develop your minor pieces toward the center.
c. Castle.
2. Develop your pieces in a way that they support your pawn breaks.
Blacks pawn break in this position is to play ...c5.
Now...what move(s) do you think you should play? I could simply tell you, but this is a learning experience.
This opening is garbage for White. Get yourself down to Black Knight against White Dark-Squared Bishop and you are close to winning. Even if you add, say, a Rook to each side.
My 1500-level lizard brain reaction to 1 d4 d5 2 e3 Nf6 3 f4 would be to go for 3...Bf5.
Possibly helpful:
Grandmaster Repertoire 11: Beating 1 d4 Sidelines by Boris Avrukh (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627001415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen164.pdf
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Beating-1-d4-Sidelines-76p3724.htm
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/GM11-1d4Sidelines-excerpt.pdf
Dealing with d4 Deviations by John Cox (2005)
"... I think it's worth examining why I used to do so badly against [the London, the Colle, the Torre, the Trompowsky, the Veresov, etc.] ... I didn't actually have a repertoire at all against, say, the Colle. You just play chess, right? Develop the pieces and equalize. I remember Grandmaster Vlatko Kovacevic playing the Colle against me ... Time has mercifully obscured the details, but I know I went ... d5 and ... c5. Pretty soon a knight appeared on e5 and I didn't seem to be able to shift it. Shortly after that, either the h- or the g-pawn arrived on the premises. Then came Re3, Qh5, and the next thing I knew I was looking like something out of 1001 Winning Chess Combinations. That wasn't the only such debacle, either; every time my opponent played one of these vile things I was behind on the clock as I worked on my conception of the wheel, and just as you'd expect some of my wheels came out square. ... I didn't consider [these openings] dangerous. ... I could list easily a hundred 2550+ players who have succumbed to the openings ... These openings produce as red-blooded a struggle as any, and if you're not ready for it, you're starting at a big disadvantage. ... I think it pays to remember that these guys play this stuff all the time, and you don't. ..."
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627032909/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen89.pdf
Playing 1.d4 d5
https://www.chess.com/blog/pfren/playing-1-d5-d5-a-classical-repertoire
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Playing1d4d5-excerpt.pdf
A Practical Black Repertoire With d5, c6
http://www.chess-stars.com/resources/contents_black_rep_d5c61.pdf
Hi, it has been a while since I last created a forum so I am going to do one now. Does anyone know how to counter this opening?