It's ok.
Chances are, it's just going to transpose into an exchange with an early c4. Which is regarded as a legit way to play against the French, but ain't exactly critical. You'll probably get an IQP structure, and have to play that way instead of in typical "French" fashion. If that's your bowl of wax, you could do worse.
But then, you can do the same with a more typical 2.d4 just the same.
Never seen that, but my guess is that black will probably play d4, and the pawns will trade and the queen will take the last pawn leading to a Scandinavian-type structure (or black will play a modern gambit style with Nf6). Also, if you play QG, you can do exd5 cxd5 d4.
It'll do the job if you really hate French though, I guess.
Never seen that, but my guess is that black will probably play d4, and the pawns will trade and the queen will take the last pawn leading to a Scandinavian-type structure (or black will play a modern gambit style with Nf6). Also, if you play QG, you can do exd5 cxd5 d4.
It'll do the job if you really hate French though, I guess.
Without the e-pawn on the board, this will have almost nothing to do with Queen's Gambit structures. The exchange you describe leads to a variation of the French exchange called the Monte Carlo. It's considered one of the "more aggressive" ways to play the French exchange, although if you wanted to play the French aggressively, you wouldn't have played an exchange to begin with, I suppose.
Appeals mainly to IQP lovers and Panov-Botvinnik aficionados. Can't see where it would hold much appeal for Queen's Gambiteers, unless their only interest is the extremely superficial c4 push.
is 1.e4 1.e6 and then 2.c4 any good for white if he wants to avoid french structures?