Using the queen in the Begining

When the first part of a chess match begins, don't be afraid of using the queen. Don't wait until the end or middlegame to use it. Because your opponent probably thinks the same thing. So if you use the queen you opponent will be unprepared for it.

I wuold suggest for you to use ANY of your pieces in the game-seeing that you have lost all your games on time and have only managed to get in 1 pawn move out of about 5 or 6 games. 

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Nexusman - looking at your game with Thomasedward,I think you would do well to look for some good chess 101 lessons on basic principles.

That game shows you what can happen when you bring out the queen so early in the game - if you don't know what you are doing, by bringing out the queen early on you give your opponent a target to chase around the board while they keep developing pieces.

That said, there ARE legitimate openings that bring out the queen early, like most variations of the Scandinavian. But more often than not, bringing out the queen early is a mistake.

Before you can make such judgments though, you need to learn the basics of opening play - what your goals should be in the opening, and what not to do in the opening. The one cardinal rule that you seem to violate with your anchiousness to use the queen is that you shouldn't move the same piece twise or more in the opening, if you can avoid it - not until you've developed at least most of your pieces, so they don't sit on the back rank doing nothing.

But look for basic chess instruction, you'll probably find it online with a quick search - or alternatively get a program like Chessmaster, one of the more recent versions, and go through the educational material there. If you'll do this, I think you'll find your results in chess improving greatly.

yes, what Stegocephalian said. You can never justify doing something just because "you're opponent will be unprepared for it". You opponent would be unprepared for, say, a large material gain, or a mistake giving them the chance to force checkmate, but you can bet they'd be happy to be surprised that way. Sure, use the queen if it's sound, but most of the time in the opening when you use it, you're merely giving the opponent chances to develop with tempo (that means they develop a piece and attack your queen at the same time, forcing your queen to move away and gaining the advantage of an extra move).

As Silman would put it, the object of the opening is to create an imbalence and develop your pieces so the imbalence is in your favor.

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I'm not a big fan of getting my queen out early. In my opinion, it gives the opponent several opportunities to attack it, which makes me have to move it several times.

And as we know, one of the most important opening rules is to not move the same piece twice.

Not to mention while the opponent is attacking my queen, he's at the same time getting his pieces developed.

Nexus, its usually best to not bring out your queen so early because it gives the opponent chances to develop with tempo by attacking your queen. Taking one of your games as an example, in your game against Thomasedward_, he developed nearly all of his pieces and castled while you were still running with your queen to find a good spot for it. Also, you ended up losing your queen as he applied pressure with all his developed pieces. He then had a superior position where he had almost all of his minor pieces out and had his rooks nearly connected while you had a bishop and a knight out in a cramped position. This shows the dangers of bringing out the queen.

Also, don't play moves because it will surprise your opponent. Surprising your opponent is only good when the move you are playing is still a relatively sound one. For example, don't put your queen in danger just to surprise your opponent, because you will likely be much more surprised after you lose a piece or two because of it.

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Geese you dont need to be so harsh

It's a good idea to learn to apply the basic opening principals before you try to choose when to break them.  Only a few pawns moves, fast piece development, castling, dont bring the queen out early, etc.  And later after you become more experienced in the game you'll learn it's better to play what the position wants more than any kind of psychological ploy like "he wont expect this so it will work"

Other than the Mieses-Kotroc Variation of the Scandinavian Defense, which goes 1. e4, d5, 2. exd5, Qxd5, which I play sometimes, I don't think early queen usage is a good idea.

1. e4, e5, 2. Qh5 I believe is bad as you could gambit the e5 pawn with 2. Nf6, then after 3. Qxe5+, black plays 3. Be7 and he's got two pieces out while white has spent two moves moving his queen.  Black can now castle and put a rook on e8.  He's also got Nc6, gaining more tempo on the queen.

Unless you're Bent Larsen with the Scandinavian right tonydal?