Can Someone help me counter this opening

The basics of each phase of the game

Opening:

Follow the Opening principles:

1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5

2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key

• Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.

• Move pieces not pawns.

3. Castle

4. Connect your rooks

• By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.

Middle game:

When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game. Now you need to formulate a middle game plan. The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game. A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.

1. Scan your opponents 5^th, and 6^th ranks (3^rd, and 4^th if your black)

2. Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.

• Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.

• Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.

• When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better

End game:

Start with the basics:

1. Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K

2. Learn Opposition, and Key Squares

3. Learn basic King and Pawn endings

Pre Move Checklist:

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.

2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.

3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.

4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece.

5. After each of your opponents moves, ask yourself: “What is my opponent trying to do?”

here is part of a game that this opening destroyed me, but in a bit of a different variation, moving his queen to H5. I understand i played this bad in someways, but its kinda the concept of that queen ruining me.

This is a suboptimal development of the queen.  It's not a disaster.  You have nothing really to exploit (apart from, as someone mentioned, you can play e5 if you want).  But mainly.  And this is not a secret but it is a key.  Mainly.  OK, I'm getting to it now.  DEVELOP YOUR PIECES TO THEIR BEST SQUARES.  That is all you can do right now.  If your opponent is making poor moves, you will have better developed pieces by move ten.  Then, you say to yourself "I have better developed pieces.  I must be winning.  What can I do with it?"  And that is genuinely about it.  If you follow the rule of developing properly, and your opponent doesn't, after ten moves you are winning.  Period.  Of course exploiting it is slightly tricker, but getting it is the first part of the battle.  If he is offering you a better developed start, take it.  Just do it.  Worry about the rest later.

OK, so ... maybe I am doing something that annoys me when higher level players answer my questions, which is assume I know something I don't.  Maybe you don't really know what good development looks like.  So...here it is:  You have both knights and both bishops on the squares which, if you just had a choice where to put them, is where you put them (out of the squares they can get to in one move--no time for maneuvering).  Your queen is off the back rank.  You are castled, so your rooks are connected.

And that is it.  It is magic if you do this.  Try it and see.

Of course there are exceptions, but for your case pretend the only exceptions are if you can mate in one, your opponent can mate in one, you can take a piece for free, or your opponent can take a piece for free.  Otherwise, there are no exceptions.

By the way -- it's a really good question for a 600 rated player to be asking.

This is kinda why I don't think beginners should use the sicilian as their first opening. In the first game, 2.Qe2 isn't really a good move. It blocks in the bishop on f1 and does little else. So your first instinct should be to develop your pieces and get some kind of development advantage. Having more pieces developed than your opponent is a big advantage in chess. The more pieces you have out, the more opportunities you'll have in the game. 

The problem is that 2...Nc6 is the only developing move on the board. And after 3.c3 Black has no developing moves left apart from 3...Nf6. Sure Black is probably great after 4.e5 Nd5 but it could be awkward to play this way if you are new to the game. And so Black finds himself in a position where he is required to break the rules of the opening to complete development by making many pawn moves in the opening. This is imo not something beginners should be required to do out of the opening. It's a rather sophisticated means of playing and can be dangerous if we aren't sure of what to do. This might be why you're having trouble finding a move.

In the second game 2.Qh5 is a little more of a hazard. After all White is threatening to win a pawn with 3.Qxc5 so we should do something about his. The queen also puts some pressure on the f7 square so Black should be careful about this. So what do we do?

Well one idea is to just defend the pawn. There are many ways of doing that like 2...d6, 2...b6, or 2...Qc7. We don't want to play 2...Na6 though because White can play 3.Bxa6 (removing the defender of the pawn on c5) 3...bxa6 4.Qxc5 when White wins the pawn.

Another option is to counterattack. 2...Nf6 is a move that develops a piece and forks the pawn on e4 and the queen on h5. After 3.Qxc5 Nxe4 4.Qe3 d5 Black should be quite fine too.

So in chess we should always think about what the idea of our opponent's move is. That will make it easier for us to find moves for ourselves.

Also I think things would be easier if you played 1.e4 e5 instead of the sicilian. With this move it will be easier to follow opening principles and find moves. 1.d4 d5 is good to play with Black with the same idea.

The French variation 2...e6 is the best reply to Sicilian Queen Attack.

It's important not to get rattled.  Hard to do during a game, but a lot easier when you analyze after the game.  2.... Nh6 is a poor move, but I understand the reason you did it -- you saw that the Queen was attacking f7, and after Bc4 he'd have two pieces on the square.  So +1 point for seeing the possibiity for vulnerablity on f7, but -1 for leaving c5 pawn unprotected, and -1 for developing your Knight on the rim at h6.  You should now see, in the calm of post-game analysis, that either e6 or d6 protect the pawn on c5 and you are now threatening 3.... Nf6, developing a piece with tempo against the queen.  2.... e6 also blocks the g8-a2 diagonal, so if White played Bc4, your f7 square would not be under double attack.

Just calmly and objectively go through your losses.  Instead of getting frustrated and asking yourself, "What the hell did I do that for!!!" calmly askk yourself, "Why did I make that move instead of a better one."  It not only improves your chess moves, it also trains your mind to have a calmer, more productive "inner dialogue" that you can take to the chessboard during play.

Omg I like Nakamura but he was demolished in these games.

first mistake with Nh6 was you were thinking 'OMG HIS QUEEN IS OUT MUST PROTECT F7' then after Nh6 you assumed the position was fine and that you could play normally. here's the annotation.

' then after wards you thought ok i'm fine just develop normally which went wrong because you gave him free pawn.