dear God, I hate bishop pins

Oh, mighty Chess demi-gods of Chess.com

I need help, and while this may seem like a silly question, it is so common that I face this that I could use some advice.

I often play the 4 knights as it seems to be easy to move into since most white players like the e4 and develope both knights.

So far so good. However there is such a common move here (and in most games it seems) Bg5.  Now I can't interpost my dark colored bishop to break the block, I can push h6 but it weakens the pawn structure in front of the king and does little besides force the Bishop to move. If he takes, not a problem I recapture with the queen but then she is out and about with nearly all the pieces still on the board and falls under attack and have to lose a tempo to pull her back. If the Bishop slips back to h4 the pin stays and the only way to dislodge it then is to play g5, completely exposing my king to a future of trouble. 

Maybe I am missing the obvious solution.  Some people push h6 in advance to the Bishop reaching g5 and while this might keep the Bishop from making the move, I would think that development of the minor pieces and linking the rooks should hold precedents. I hate pushing an a or h pawn in the hopes of avoiding the problem and I hate pushing it to dislodge since ultimately it does nothing but speed up the exchange.

ANY advice (besides "just do it") would be appreciated (if you want o say just do it thats cool, but explain yourself).

is there NO way around a pre-emptive h6?

Kind of a contradiction.

God please get rid of these bishops!

Why worry about it? Play Be6 (for example) in response to Bg5 and if he takes, then fxe6 and you control the center.  That's one way to respond..

 I believe the Scottish Kirk has solved this problem

by Be6 do you mean to not push e6? and by "if he takes then play fxe6" do you mean if the bishop takes the knight on f6 take back with the g pawn? Above all else, this I want to avoid as then my king is t-toatally screwed.  I may be misunderstanding you, if so I am sorry. I want to control the center, but not at the expense of exposing my king completely since he is castled on the king side.

I do have MCO and I have gone through the lines repeatedly, but I desperately want to find the correct theory/responce to this, it seems to simple, but it baffles me at the same time.

The position after 4.Bc4 already scores almost 60% for black.  After 4...Nxe4, that goes up to over 70%.  e.g., 5.NxN d5.

You worry about things like a little pin a lot less when you're already sitting in the catbird seat by move 5.

the dilemma: you hate bishops pinning your knight and restricting your movement...

The solution: If your movement/advancement is being stopped because of the pin, why not move queen? if you move queen, he plays Bg5, then run away with knight. Is that what you're looking for? if not, then whats your objective?

I had considered this, but the only spot available for the queen to move to would be d7, locking in the light squared bishop and slowing development, perhaps at this stage in my chessic career I shouldn't worry so much about it and realize losing a tempo against a player under 1500 wouldn't be so bad, I had hoped there was something that would simply change the make up of the possibilities open to me.

I guess the better way to put the question is, once you have a pin like this and your bishop that could break it is locked out what would be the best move.  I imagine that the best thing to do is instead of 4....Bc4 to simply play 4....Be7, but since this isn't "book" and since d6 is coming I didn't want to lock him in. Hmmm, I would say that I would simply abandon the 4 knights for something else, but this scenario is common always.  Unless you push both d and e pawns onto the 5th rank Allowing the queen to move to the 6th rank (to protect the knight and be out of the pin) or have the dark squared bishop readily available (ie. dark colored bishop at the e7 square so I don't lose a tempo to bring him back to protect) I don't see an easily available solution except to push the h6 pawn prior to the bishop arriving there. If that's the case, and it may well be, why don't I see that at higher levels of play more often (yes, I know it does occure, but not as often as I see it here on chess.com).

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Thank you padman, that makes complete sense, and I do worry about getting into a bad habit of losing tempo so I ovely worry (and I bow to the demi-god padman, hmmm, an australian chess demi-god, "Foster's, Australian for Holy Crap, he knows what he's talking about). thanks

I wonder that there´s no need getting into that quandary. Whites allways move first.

The guy who plays black doesn't get to decide whether or not to play the Halloween gambit.

In that case, Alekhine!

bc4 is mistake imo becuase of nxe4

 You mean in my diagram?

4....Nxe4, NxN d5, Bb5....Pxn, (to regain back the piece) Nxe5...Bd7 (forced) now white can simply destroy blacks queenside pawn structure by exchanging on C6 and blacks pawn on E4 is overextended and weak !! OR did i miss something ?

 GM praxis shows that not only is ...Bd7 not forced, but that both ...Qd5 (scores over 80% for black) and ...Qg5 (over 90%) are clearly superior.

I should say "high level databases show" rather than "GM praxis."  No GM would get in that position with white.

 I agree blacks counter-attack Qg5 loses for white (i did a quick analysis "that" is what i missed !! ) LOL