Beware this Opening

I've been seeing a lot of people playing the King's Knight, McConnell Defense recently, as well as the Nora Bot. If this opening is played against you, you are forced to play with only one winning move, kind of like the Max Lange Attack. The opening starts with 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Qf6 3. Nc3 c6.

Now what people don't know, is that Qf6 and c6 are both actually MISTAKES. But white has to play perfectly in order to keep a two point advantage, with 4. d4 exd4 5. Bg5. The point of this is to develop more of your pieces with a tempo on the black queen, because after this sequence, white has 1 centre pawn, 2 knights, 1 bishop vs an awkwardly placed queen. 

Best move for black is Qd6 but Qg6 is popular as well. If Qd6 you take the pawn with the knight but if Qg6 you have to take it with the queen or you lose your bishop. Here is a game that I won when my opponent tried this opening against me. 

Uh yeah, I did miss a few things in this position but in the end, I managed to outplay the opponent by using my more developed pieces to attack his vulnerable king. I just want to get this out to make sure no one else falls for this opening because any other move played like Bc4 or g3 is an inaccuracy. I used to lose to this opening a lot before I used game review on a game with that opening and learned how to counter it. So just remember d4 and Bg5 and you should be able to master the opening and crush your opponent after playing it enough. Since the McConnell defense has been gaining popularity as most of my opponents are playing it, I hope this helps you to beat this otherwise tiresome opening. Thank you!!

very nice!

Hmm, thanks for the head-up!

can works but never see this moves, i play scoth is e4 e5 Nf3 but Qf6 is a really weirdo, can be mythic

A lot of my opponents played this opening against me. It might be losing popularity since players are finding ways to counter it but we are on different rating levels so this might not be seen at a high rating. Thanks for reading!

@AkitoClaw , @Thisguyisgreat3 . Thank you so much for reading!

no problem!

Sí, la McConnell es curiosa, pero también hay algo que puedes intentar después de 3...c6: en lugar de ir directamente con d4, a veces se puede optar por Bc4, atacando la f7 de inmediato.

Esto obliga a las negras defender y pierden un poco de ritmo en su desarrollo. Puede ser una opción interesante para variar mas el d4 y Bg5 es un clásico que nunca falla

Good idea, but since Bc4 doesn't force black to defend immediately so it is not a major threat. Black has a queen and king defending f7 so a single bishop attacking that square isn't enough to create a threat that black has to defend immediately. Actually, Bc4 is an inaccuracy and drops the +2 advantage that can be achieved after d4, Bg5 to a +1 advantage.

I actually used to play Bc4 back when I first started seeing this opening. However, Bc4 didn't allow me to fully punish the black queen and made me lose some games after the black queen attacked my g2 square. I recommend d4 over Bc4 because at the end of both sequences, the key difference is that after d4 and Bg5, Black does not have a pawn in the centre. White can also play Bc4 next move, but the original idea of d4, Bg5 after Bc4 is refutable. So in short, Bc4 is not a move that I would consider but this move keeps you at an advantage of +1.

Thanks for sharing your ideas!