Ah ah ah... Not so fast! - Punishing Early Queen Moves

We've all been on both sides of this situation at one time or another. After all it's so tempting.

Our queen is one of the strongest pieces on the board. She can go anywhere and sometimes it feels like she can be invincible and take out any piece.

While that's often true later in the game, in the opening it's usually the opposite.

If you can spare about a minute, you can learn how avoid common mistakes for beginners, punish your opponents, and learn a simple opening trick I've used against 1700+ rated players from time to time successfully without giving up equity in the #2 non sponsored blog of the day here:

https://www.chess.com/blog/Dumbluck626/ah-ah-ah-not-so-fast-punishing-early-queen-moves.

For anyone looking for positional insights and how to cripple players who are tricky with knights easily, check out the #1 non sponsored blog of the day here:

https://www.chess.com/blog/Dumbluck626/nowhere-to-run-1

What do you all think?

Lol yeah for players around 1900 I would be surprised if they brought out their queen early for anything but like 2 mayyybe 3 openings. But this is definitely geared toward beginners.