King's pawn follow up

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Cootie9081

I like to open with e2-e4 and a response I've been getting is d7-d6. I would like to think for center control my next move would be d2-d4 because black allowed me that expansion, however g8-f6 attacking e4 is messing me up. I try f2-f3 but that breaks pawn structure for king side castle later and b1-d2 blocks my queen side bishop for a while. d1-e2 seems to do the same to king side bishop and gets my queen involved a bit too early I think. Is there a good solution for this or is d2-d4 as my second move just a bad call? I would search this but I'm not sure what all these openings and defences are called. If anyone has a link analyzing this or can offer any help I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Bellcow

3.Nc3

trysts

Look up the "Pirc defence". If you ever don't know what an opening is, just put the moves into Google;)

Cootie9081

Thanks for the reply! I thought about this too. I should of mentioned idealy I would have c2-c3 at some point for better pawn positioning, but as soon as this knight moves f4 falls. I'm just having a very difficult time protecting f4 when I pawn to d4. I'm starting to think the extra square foward for center control isn't worth the trouble of protecting f4. I should probably still just follow up with 2. d3 unless I can handle this better.

Cootie9081

YES! trysts thank you. That's exactly it! I'll never know how people can memorize what these openings are called, that's amazing!

Cootie9081

Oh and thanks for the putting the moves into google tip. I probably should of thought of that!

trysts

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