As an example, I have see this opening from Black on occasion, but it creates too many targets for White. In the example below, White could have done better to stop this zig zag pawn formation from reaching all 8 pawn pushes, but I made a few passive moves by White to illustrate this formation by Black in its fullest.
How was Emil Joseph Diemer able to so obviously violate the opening principle stated below by Nimzowitsch and Lasker, and win? Do you have any games to share where one side made more pawn moves than piece moves in the opening and won? What was the highest number of pawn moves you made in a game before developing a piece, and then went on to win. As unorthodox as this opening style happens to be, it does sound like a fun challenge, once and a while in a blitz game.
"In the open game speed of development is the overriding law. Each piece should be developed with only one move; each and every pawn move - with the exception of those which either establish or support your centre, or attack that of your opponent - can be considered a waste of time. So - as was already made clear by Lasker - 1-2 pawn moves in the opening, no more." - My System by Aron Nimzowitsch.