benefits of d1 in the middle

What are the benefits of having d1 in the middle of the board during the first 8 moves?

What???

I deleted my post because I misunderstood the question. In general develop your queen after bishops and knights are developed.

I'm assuming you mean developing your queen early?  The benefits are largely none, with the half-exception of Qg4 moves in french structures, which aren't in the middle of the board anyways.  

Actually the only person on this forum who has failed the IQ test is you because of your topic post.

^^ d1 can never go to the middle becuase d1 is the annotation for the d1 square.  Squares can not move only pieces or pawns can. If you was trying to be clever and say the queen you should of put the notation of Q to represent the queen.

Example:  Benefits of Qd1 in the middle

Happy check mating and I hope this helps you on your journey to chess mastery

If there was any IQ test involved, the OP flunked it with his initial post

You are not as stupid as I thought you were.

XPLAYERJX wrote:

DrSpudnik wrote:

Queen is Dame (D) in German and is represented by ф in Russian (short for ферзь).

One thing I learned way way back is this gem from the Scotch--as played by noobs:

1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4

And now the Queen in lodged in the middle of the board and can't be dislodged without wasting a bunch of moves and distorting your whole position.

It doesn't matter what the German word of queen is because it is based off of notation. No matter what language their are only a handful of notation's examples below.

If you was using Algebraic notation and was doing so in German the (D) as you said would represent the queen but it would not represent the square and in Algebraic notation the square is d1 so you would say Dd1 like in English they say Qd1.

Algebraic notation

1.e4

This is what chess.com uses

Long algebraic notation

1.e2-e4

in Long algebraic notation they would say 1.e2-e4 showing the pawn moving from its original square to e4

Descriptive notation

1.P-K4 

which is Kings pawn 4

Numeric notation

1.5254

in Numeric notation they use numbers to stop any foreign language differences/confusions Example: in Greek The Queen is represented with a B  becuase of the Greek word (βασίλισσα) meaning Queen.

In English B = Bishop in english but if a Greek person was to play a English person and played Ba1 for example and than moved his Queen to the a1 square their might be a chess scuffle you get what I mean? So they use numbers

1.e4 = 1.e2-e4 = 1.5254

52 would be e2 in English Algebraic notation than 54 would be e4

They use this in international chess becuase in Algebraic notation or Descriptive notation the different Letters in different languages can cause confusion between the different language speaking people. So what they do is replace all the letters on the board with numbers.

Figurine algebraic notation

1.♙e4

1.♘f3

They normally don't show the pawn moves with the Figurine pawn much usually only the other pieces but It still looks sexy to me. So i showed it so you get the idea

This is my most favorite Notation of them all Instead of using letters to describe pieces they use Figurine's

Portable Game Notation(PGN)

Used for recording Chess games thats how you can tell what the moves in a game were.

Forsyth–Edwards Notation(FEN)

Are used to define Initial positions of Games.

Before reading my last bit of information here is some background music to get you in the right mindset when reading it.

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All of the above information describes the different Chess notation's that exist in the world of chess;however, none of them describe the OP's Topic post. It does not exist. Which means I pass the IQ test. WOOOOOO HOOOO shiny gold star on my cute young forehead O yeah thats the way I like it.

Happy checkmating and I hope this helps you in your chess journey to Chess Mastery.

What a long post! You definitely pass the IQ test!

d1 is associated in English Algebraic Notation as a square.

You are making the assumption that the queen will be on the d1 square. Which is not always the case becuase in some games their is no queen.

Example In GrandMaster chess they would give their opponents knight odds, rook odds, or queen odds. In some games because their opponents were inferior in playing strength. So they would give themselves a handicap as it were. On chess.com this is not possible but Over The Board chess it is most def possible and does happen. It doesn't happen in real life tournements that much anymore but for fun etc.

Which is why I am trying to stir you away from that. Most times yes the queen will be on d1 but it just depends on the game. You shouldn't classify it as d1 though you should use the Symbol  Q  for queen thats if your english of course other country's use different Symbols to represent queen accordance with their language.

I have played a few people given them queen odd's before and knight odd's lol But generally I only do that if they are really lower than me. It makes the match some what even.