Stonewall Attack- Crush with 1.D4

Stonewall Attack is an opening where White (usually)  has pawns on d4,e3,c3 and f4, bishop on d3 and knight to e2.

First, this setup offers you to take the game into Bird Opening(1.f4) which might be as good as 1.d4.

Second, White is having a better pawn structure by building a good attacking and defensive formation.

Third, just like I mentioned in my recent blog" Caro-Kann Defense: Crush 1.E4" this opening is quite easy to memorize because it follows basic opening principles. In my recent blog, you can see two most important opening principles.

I hope you will now start playing Stoewall Attack and usually more closed and positional 1.d4.

It's a terrible opening

Dear 1e4_0-1, I appreacite that you beleive that this is not good opening.
First of all, I would like you to explain why do you think Stonewall Attack is bad.

Second of all, after looking at your games, I noticed you are playing a lot of 1.Nf3 (Reti Opening).Nf3 is only good if you will play King Indian Setup. Reti Opening is nowhere near good as Stonewall Attack since in Reti Opening. Reti Opening is bad beacuse:
a) You need to memorize a lot of opening theory since Reti can transpose in to those systems.
b) Reti Opening does not have strong weapon aggainst Black nonsense but very intresting approaces (Herrstrom Gambit)

Again, thank you for your reply and feel free to comment my message my coment anytime.

Stonewall is objectively terrible, and doesn't work well against everything.

Dear 1e4-0-1, I appreacite your comment very much. However, I dont understand why are you ignoring my posts.

NUMBER 1: Stonewall Attack is an accepted opening in world of grandmasters. If you go on Chess.com lessons, you can clearly see that Magnus Carlsen (highest rated player in history) is explaining the power of Stonewall Attack. He also shows that he beated multiple grandmasters using this opening. So your saying that Stonewall Attack is objectively terrible is false and I would like you to stop spreading this kind of false information.

NUMBER 2: You said that Stonewall Attack does not work aggainst everything. This is again false since Stonewall Attack works aggainst all Black major defenses. I think you should do some exploration of this opening before respoding to my comment.

NUMBER 3: You also didnt say anything about Reti Opening. Look at my comment and you will see I listed you why is your opening is much worse than Stonewall Attack.

Thank you very much for your reply and feel free to comment anytime.

P.S. Please, respond in way that you will list logical reasoning that support your opinion and not just say your subjective thought.

Not sure why it is not played more often. Between 1880 and 1910 most of the top players essayed the Stonewall Attack on a regular basis. i.e. the 2600 elo players of the day e.g. Pillsbury, Lasker, Albin, Tarrasch, Marcozy Tchigorin just to name a few.

Most ECOs give bad analysis based off what we noobs play.

Pillsbury, Lasker, Albin, Tarrasch, Marcozy Tchigorin etc opened the game with 1. d4 2. e3 & 3.Bd3 which throws a monkey wrench into the modern "refutation "

What precise move order do you suggest

After 1. d4 d5 2. e3 e6 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. f4, my engine says Black already has an advantage. As well, it is very rare in my database. A opening that gives Black an objective advantage can't be good for White

Please show these games

Most of Pillsbury's games, as far as I know, do not fall under the category of "the stonewall attack" opening.