A tip: don’t play the wayward queen attack or anything like it if you want to improve. Developing your queen too early almost always fails as she gets chased around the board while your opponent makes developing moves. Play 2.nf3 and 3.bc4 instead. Since you like traps, if he takes the e4 pawn with his bishop you can play bxf7 followed by Ng5+, reclaiming lost material and making black lose their right to castle. I will post an example below:
A lucky anti-Owen's Defence
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May 2, 2024
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one of my old games. I have gotten many people with this trap. Bxf7+ gets classified as a !! Move by the chess.com engine.
if they don’t take the poison e4 pawn and play e6 correctly you still are very solid as white with control of the center and a lead in development.
I was taken by surprise when Black played the Owen-pawn 1...b6. But as a good scholar, I always try a fast reply.