How to protect from Queen Move

Hi all,

I am new to Chess.com and my level is less than 250 at the moment. Recently I did two games with a Queen opening very similar where opponents surprised me.

The first one was this:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/29506772413

My mistake here was not to protect Pawn in e5 with Knight. I did it in the second game here:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/29507970661

the result was that I only last a bit longer.

What should be in these situations the best defense and also avoid the high queen pressure?

Thank in advance for any help-

Nc6 was good, you made most of the things correct, just sacking the knight then with Nxh5 was hilarious😂😉. Seriously, your opponent is just lost based on position if he brings the queen out this early. Let him win the pawn( if it costs his bishop pair with BxNc6), castle fast (like you did) and then just bring all your pieces out, play active in the center and ignore his kingside demonstration, if you dont react, his h4/h5 threat is useless.

After 1. e4, e5; 2. Qh5 you have 2 ways to defend. The first is the simple on:

A. 1. e4, e5; 2. Qh5 (attacking pawn e5), Nc6 (defending pawn e5); 3. Bc4 (attacking Qxf7#), g6 (preventing Qxf7); 4. Qf3 (renewing the threat Qxf7), Nf6 (developing and ending the Qxf7 threat). If they play 5. Qb3 (threatening Bxf7+) you can defend with Qe7. Then your development will be normal, with moves like Bg7, 0-0, d6 and bringing the light-squared bishop out. White will have lost a lot of time without any gains. You'll have a better middlegame. 

B. 1. e4, e5; 2. Qh5, Nf6!? Let him take the e5-pawn. You'll have a lot of development. 3. Qxe5+, Be7; 4. Nf3, 0-0; 5. Bc4 and now 5. ... Re8 and white is already under pressure. Say white plays 6. 0-0, then you can play Bb4 (among other moves) and then win the pawn back with Nxe4. If he chooses something like 6. d3 (to defend the e4 pawn), you can take advantage of the rook being on the same file as white's queen and king with a move like 6. ... d5 (as exd5 is impossible losing the queen to Bd6: pinning the white queen with the rook to the king). 

I've played 1. e4, e5; 2. Qh5 a while as white when I was rated around 2000. It was fun and didn't immediately lose or anything. Line B I found the most annoying. I like line A, as it's just a position and if you always play 1. e4, e5; 2. Qh5 you'll be more experienced in it than your opponent.

It seems to me that you are just making random moves without noticing even if a piece is hanging (can be taken) or not.

If you want to improve, you need to stop that. Don't play 10-minute chess. Play longer games, try to calculate things, try not to hang pieces. Everything else does not matter.

Thank magipi,

You said:

"If you want to improve, you need to stop that. Don't play 10-minute chess."

My moves are not random but absolutely they are ineffectively sometimes. What do you suggest about game time? Having a time of 10 minutes often leads me to rush the moves.

I am following the lessons here on Chess.com and I would like to understand how often should I play a game and how much time should I set. I noticed there are bots I can train with. Do you think they are useful? How I should alternate bots with the real games?

Thank you in advance for your help.

In the second game, after white's 9. h5 your position is great. You are way ahead in development, your king is safe, white's king is still in the center. Then you play 9. - Nxh5?? hanging the knight, and in the next move you hang mate in 1. With just two moves you went from almost winning to getting mated.

You say that your moves are not random, but then how do you explain your 9th and 10th move? What were you thinking when you made them? These are things that are worth reviewing.

As for time control, anything is good that does not feel too fast. The slower the better.

In my opinion, bots are good practice partners. A lot of people think that bots are worthless because they play very different than humans, but I think they are wrong. If you want to practice specifically the wayward queen attack, I recommend the Nelson bot, he plays like that.

You said:

You say that your moves are not random, but then how do you explain your 9th and 10th move? What were you thinking when you made them? These are things that are worth reviewing.

Yes. You are right for sure. When I said they were not random I meant I thought the move, but the result was a disaster. I am a beginner and I need to review my games.

Thank you for the advice about bots. Really appreciate.

RAU4ever I was studying scenario B but it is confusing. After Nf3 Black 0-0 is not possible, there is a knight in the middle. Can you explain better this scenario with one move for white and one for black. Otherwise for me it's difficult to understand the white and black move

Please ignore my last message. I w as wrong. The scenario is clear.

Can someone tell me if this aggressive open with Queen has a name?

Try diffrent times and see what you like. Currently for me now i play 3 days dailys so i have a max time of 72 hours per move. I still do bad moves, but atleast i cant blame the clock when loosing. But try diffrent time and see what you feel like. I sometimes myself play blitz 3 or 5 min and other times I play 3 hour games. The more time you can spend per move the more you can learn. 

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"Having a time of 10 minutes often leads me to rush the moves."
Play 15|10 time control. Thanks to the increment you never have to rush. You can start your game at 40 seconds per move and finish at 10 seconds per move.

Thank you for your feedback.

Anyone can answer my last question:

"Can someone tell me if this aggressive open with Queen has a name?"

"Wayward queen attack".

Thank you

if no one said it, there is a computer designed to play this way named 'nelson'.   Get good enough to beat him, then unleash your training on the humans  

     You can simply defend the e-pawn with d6 or Nc6 or Qe7. White's queen can't do anything all by itself and you can harass it with the natural developing move Nf6. You will soon be way ahead in development and have much the better game. Or you can accelerate the process at the cost of a pawn with 2....Nf6, possibly managing to keep the white king in the center subject to a strong attack.

> if no one said it, there is a computer designed to play this way named 'nelson'.   Get good enough to beat him, then unleash your training on the humans 

Thanks, I subscribed to the gold premium account. I'll do it.

However, my score is 283 and it's incredible the number of opponents that play this attack. Now I learned how to defense :-)

Playing early queen attacks is such an an annoying thing in chess...