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Not a good plan for a few reasons: 

 

(1) The hypermodernists of the early 20th century came up with a radical idea - they said that pawns advanced in the opening are often more LIABILITY than strength.........obviously, they were not 100% correct about this, but the idea has serious merit - if you try to take the center with four pawns at once, those pawns become the target of black's counterattack; a weak group of pawns to be softened and gobbled up. 

 

(2) Too many pawn moves! It's a broken record that every chess teacher will repeat - don't make a ton of pawn moves and fail to develop your pieces; you will be sorry.

 

(3) Hope chess - You can't play chess by creating traps, hoping your opponent misses them, and waiting to collect your win. Very low level games are almost all won because a threat is simply missed, but this will not happen very often above the 1500 rating mark.....even below 1500, many of your traps will be spotted and refuted. You have to have a contingency plan for your opponent NOT falling for whatever 3 move checkmate you've dreamed up. 

 

(4) A *whole* game - similar to the 'hope chess' comment, you have to think about chess openings as if you're going to play a long game with three distinct phases. Amateurs make the mistake of thinking that 'great chess' is the kind of chess that wins in 4 moves, but Grandmasters usually play games as if they're going to last 80 moves (because sometimes they do). If you think "I'm going to advance these four pawns and win immediately" you're not imagining the endgame that you might like to have or which side your king will castle to - things that should always be on your mind when opening a chess game. 

 

So that's my advice - open as if you want to win LATER. Move 1 is not the time for checkmate. 

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