yeah its a terrible move. brings out the queen and blocks the knight, which is the piece that could pressure whites e4 pawn.
I would play Bc4 then 0-0, waiting to see what black does. it might be good to play c3/d4 at some point
King's Pawn Murkyness
Sort:
I agree. You shouldn't really rush out to attack the queen, but develop your pieces naturally and let his development naturally make itself more complicated. For example, the Knight would like to go to e7 - but so would the Bishop! To have them both developed, the Knight could go to e7, and the Bishop could be fianchettoed, but this spends another tempo!
I've played against this opening in a number of games on chess.com, and what's distressing about it is that the database has no recorded games after two moves:
I guess the first point you could make is that I should not rely so much on the opening explorer. Objectively speaking, it seems to be an unwise way to defend the e5 pawn, early development of the queen, blocking in the Knight etc. It must be bad if there are literally no games in the database for it. Nontheless, I've struggled against it. My plan is always normal development, maybe getting a Knight to d5 with Tempo, but it bever seems to work. Can anyone suggest a good plan against it, or is there a good book that has strong plans?
Ta.