The Wayward Queen Attack

Do not play your queen that early: she will have to flee.

There is a famous line that counters the Wayward Queen Attack. Black gets a developmental advantage and white's queen can become a target easily. Their g1 knight also cannot develop to its normal square.

Typically, this is an attempt at Scholar's Mate, but this line prevents it.

If you want to practice defending from this sort of thing, play the bot "Nelson" who loves to get his queen out early. Nelson is one of the cost-free bots, last I checked.

You know what also defends it? 1... c5 2... e6 3...Nc6, and if white does not play accurately he is in dire straits. e6 does not only blunt the Fischer bishop but also allows Ne5 - it's the known best move in the Sicilian and reduces the value of the wayward queen attack to dust.

Out of all 1,000 or so openings there is literally only  a handful where the queen comes out before move 5. The Pterodactyl, the Amazon Attack, and the Quinteros Sicilian, for example. Focus on piece development first - you don't know where the queen belongs yet.

There are some openings you could call sailor openings because once you play them your invisible opponent is over there swearing like a sailor. The Italian in general, the Two Knights in particular, and the Knight Attack in particular particular. Also the Scandinavian and Center Game. Scholar's / Fool's Mate, and Wayward Queen. I play the first five of those almost exclusively, and not to be a jerk, but just because they're the easiest openings to remember. That's why everyone and their mother plays them, and why your opponent might abort the game on you. If you want to play a more relaxed game, try focusing on development as far into the game as possible.

I don't understand this at all. The Italian for example is a perfectly good opening, and the Wayward queen is one of the worst. None of these are reason for your opponent to be upset.

I mean on Chesscom, and it's only what I see people complaining about in here, and what I worry about. In truth, they won't abort, but they probably are going to be mad at you. Not all of them, but if you play a common opening, according to some posts I see occasionally -- here and also, I suppose, on the ruh-deet -- it's going to make some people upset. Don't kill the messenger! As I said, these are my own openings, for the most part, though I try not to bring out the Queen too early. I hope that makes sense. The scale of the things I tend to bring up just always outclasses my ability to follow through on them.

That opening sucks lmao

I call it the Gayward Queen because that's exactly what it is. While it may be fun at the lowest levels it doesn't do anything for real improvement.