Leave your Queen where?

I found it, I think ... the worst place to let your Queen sit for even a moment.  I'm now very curious ... is there a worse place for her to park her behind than e6?

Your queen on c6 would be much worse here lol

c6 would of course allow pinning her to the King. You win that round ... c6 would be worse!

I take it your queen was on d5 and you chose to go Qe6? I think when you're behind in development like this it's safer to just go back to d8. Qa5 is possible too but you might be forced to play c6 later which blocks in your knight

Oh yes, that is correct! I can usually find ways to chase Queenie all over the board (deploying my pieces and expanding center control at same time) so I never like giving that same advantage to OP. Nothing excites me more than a Queen hunt! Thank you so much!

A question: Would your answer be different if you were playing white and your Queen was roaming since white jump-start can set the tempo which gives her ability to maneuver and *escape potential traps? Would you always just tuck her back home?

* I've chased and trapped a white Queen (a glorious game) but it was against player my level. More advanced players would never have fallen for it.

ps. I'm straying off my normal openings (both sides), flipping the board, and viewing/working games from both sides in my testing. A young new friend flipped my head upside down recently and I'm hoping this re-homing work triggers deeper perspective. I also realize that I am 'positionally challenged.' Chess Structures by Rios

ADDED: Also, my new opening choice Scotch Game, is aggressive with the Queen so all bets are off and that's why I love this entire thing ... never a single day/game/time/second that chess is boring, LOL!!!

It depends what square it's on. The worst thing you can do is let black develop with tempo so obviously if your queen was on b4 or something that would be awful

But if it was on h4 then that would be a good square for the white queen because g5 isn't possible so it's not possible for black to develop with tempo

But as a general rule the queen is really good behind a bishop (this is called a battery) so if I was white I'd consider d4 Bf4 h3 Qd2 here. Or figure out a way to make Qc2 Bd3 possible because that's a nice diagonal (another reason to play c4 before Nc3)

Sometimes the Queen is in more danger on its original square (eg: d1) than if you advance it.

Check out this Sicilian line:

Why not e8

Jkjk

@chesssblackbelt Oh, I see it. Thank you! Queen/Bishop diagonal control - yes, that is what I like. And including a way so Queen can slip to the front. heheh. Interesting ideas and I'm working on them.

lets 1v1

No matter how many puzzles I play, I don't seem to really GROK many concepts until I run SMACK into them in a game and that includes the run-up beforehand because THAT is where I solidify the WHY. Otherwise the pattern feels half-baked like an incomplete thought.

I'll respond again after giving these responses proper attention tomorrow! Thank you so much!

You particularly @Just_an_average_player136 - that is absolutely brilliant!!! 
Where is the forehead slap emoji when we need it?

I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. But I'm open!