What is the wayward queen attack?
If it is 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 I play it regularly against my ten year old grandson. I also play it with Black sometimes. I want him to learn how to refute it (not just to defend against it). He is bound to meet it as Black in school matches.
There are no cheap wins... only cheap losses! 
it's not the best opening is it. a lot of openings are better.
It's probably just some kind of Italian game with the queen on f3 if nothing goes wrong.
Probably wants checkmate.
You don't have to play best opening. Even grandmasters sometimes play unorthodox openings (mostly in blitz or rapid though). Example 1.g4
At what point does something become "refuted"? Does it require the position to provably lead to a loss? I think I've seen various gambits being listed as refuted, but the "refutation" tend to only show a few lines for a few moves and certainly don't play things out to the rest of the game. It seems simply enough to show no gain for the loss of material. (Are chess engines that play the game out to checkmate actually required behind the scenes?)
It seems to me that at best with Qh5, the White Queen will be chased away, forced to move the Queen with no gain... probably to a location it could have moved to the first time. As if White is saying "No, no. I'll play Black." I mean, clearly playing as Black can't be refuted and is probably as good as playing as White in theory... But if 2. Qh5 isn't "refutable", what's the proper word to describe it? "Bad"? "Dubious"?
i mainly play rapid however when i'm bored i just mess about with blitz. the problem is though that i only see 2 openings 90% of the time. the wayward queen attack and the Italian game. the Italian game fried liver trap is played over and over again. but the Italian by itself is ok so it's not that bad of practice (it's still bad practice in terms of getting better but it's not as bad as playing the wayward queen attack.).
so why do people play the wayward queen attack? it goes against opening principles. it's simply a bad opening. the reason i go on this site is to improve my chess. playing the wayward queen wont help anyone improve. it's just people who want to get cheap wins which don't benefit them at all.
if your someone who plays it:
1. change your opening to something good.
2.Why do you play it.
My opening software calls it the patzer opening lol but I've definitely lost as black before when white plays that. Can't remember how I got in trouble, something to with white's king knight. I like seeing that opening though. I play knight c6 and continue to develop while white keeps moving his queen. If you get lucky they will try to play Qb3 adding more pressure on f7 and you can catch them in that knight fork trap winning the bishop.
You can't force your opponent to play what you want them to play. If this opening is that bad, just beat em all and rank up. If that's not enough, I got several medicaments for you :
You can't force your opponent to play what you want them to play. If this opening is that bad, just beat em all and rank up. If that's not enough, I got several medicaments for you :
Did you type the right moves, 4xel? Wouldn't the queen just take the e5 pawn with check on 2. Nf6? And if the queen didn't take the e5 pawn, white couldn't play 3. Bc4 because the queen is attacked by the knight on F6
You can't force your opponent to play what you want them to play. If this opening is that bad, just beat em all and rank up. If that's not enough, I got several medicaments for you :
Did you type the right moves, 4xel? Wouldn't the queen just take the e5 pawn with check on 2. Nf6? And if the queen didn't take the e5 pawn, white couldn't play 3. Bc4 because the queen is attacked by the knight on F6
Oopss, yeah, I confused Nf6 and Nc6. Nf6 is playable and is what I meant for my point two. TY, I'll edit and correct that
4xel: "Play 2...Nf6 and show them who's the more aggressive. " I inferred that this was a gambit.
i mainly play rapid however when i'm bored i just mess about with blitz. the problem is though that i only see 2 openings 90% of the time. the wayward queen attack and the Italian game. the Italian game fried liver trap is played over and over again. but the Italian by itself is ok so it's not that bad of practice (it's still bad practice in terms of getting better but it's not as bad as playing the wayward queen attack.).
so why do people play the wayward queen attack? it goes against opening principles. it's simply a bad opening. the reason i go on this site is to improve my chess. playing the wayward queen wont help anyone improve. it's just people who want to get cheap wins which don't benefit them at all.
if your someone who plays it:
1. change your opening to something good.
2.Why do you play it.