Is it bad to take the queen out at the start?
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Angel9182
Mar 8, 2020
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Hello, recently I have been playing chess and I know how to start, but, should I take the queen out at the start? Does it depend on the circumstance?
I am a beginner so my answer might not be complete accurate. I suggest not taking your queen out at the start as your opponent can constantly threaten it, making you lose tempo, the speed in which you develop. When your opponent moves their knight, they develop it and then you have to move your queen again, losing a move. Of course, there are some exeptions.
In the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" Josh gets chastized for bringing his queen out to early in his games.
Josh learned chess by watching and playing chess hustlers in Washington Square Park in New York City.
The hustlers often brought out their queen early, and often played wild combinations designed to get their opponent off balace, rather than playing good chess. So Josh's teacher, Bruce Pandolifi, was fighting an uphill battle to teach Josh how to play winning chess at normal time controls, and not the wild combinations that the chess hustlers do in 2 min games at the park.
It's better to learn to play good chess, rather than early attacks against your opponents. I've been against players that pretty much stake their chess career on quick attacks... and some are very talented... but in the end thay have little chance against good defence. While the attacker is using a few pieces to attack, the defender is slowly using every opportunity to develop pieces. At some point the attack loses steam, and the defender has developed most of thier pieces... just waiting for the right moment to go straight into offense.
There are some openings like the Scandinavian where you bring the queen out early but in the vast majority of cases you should not bring your queen out to early.
"... the problem with developing the queen so early: the further advanced the queen becomes, the more prone it is to attack from enemy pieces, and this is particularly the case in the opening when there have been no piece trades and the board is cluttered. If you're not careful with your queen handling in the opening then you could easily lose time as it gets pushed from pillar to post. And losing time is not a good idea because you are likely to fall behind in development. ... [1 e4 d5] 2 exd5 Qxd5. Black's idea with 1...d5 is to immediately open lines for his pieces and thus ensure easy development. The price he pays is that he loses time having to move his queen again after 3 Nc3. …" - GM John Emms (2006)