Why do people even use Wayward Queen Attack? It is completely useless to me -_-

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The_Arrow_Of_Requiem

I usually find it confusing that why people use Wayward Queen Attack. I had made a blog post about it (Link will be given). It gives the player a disadvantage to develop pieces as the Queen would be on constant risk and you have to keep playing with Queen. For example, I had played a game where my opponent white had used Wayward Queen Attack against me.

He resigned after this. I had missed several good moves I think but I won.

So yeah. I don't know why players even play this move. My personal favourite is Giuoco Piano. Just develop your pieces and control the center. 

My blog : https://www.chess.com/blog/The_Arrow_Of_Requiem/beginners-guide-part-1-the-wayward-queen-attack

Yeah thats it.

willw155

It's because it's very easy for beginners to go wrong.  

 
I've never seen anyone play Nh6 before against it, however I suppose it prevents checkmate.  The obvious downside is that the knight on h6 is poorly placed and will be unable to enter the game  and your d5 trap won't work against Qh5-Qf3

 

zephastus
It’s a good opening for beginners
locoturbo

As I said in another thread - Wayward Queen is the chess equivalent of griefing noobs in an MMO, and the people that use it have the same lack of character.

sndeww

Wayward queen attack is the funny 

BroiledRat
Same reason people hang those same Queens.

They are terrible at the game.

Even by my standards. lol
AunTheKnight
willw155 wrote:

It's because it's very easy for beginners to go wrong.  

 
I've never seen anyone play Nh6 before against it, however I suppose it prevents checkmate.  The obvious downside is that the knight on h6 is poorly placed and will be unable to enter the game  and your d5 trap won't work against Qh5-Qf3
 

 

Doesn’t ‌‌‌Bxh6 lose for black?

poggopchamp
Reason is it is fun.
AunTheKnight
poggopchamp wrote:
Reason is it is fun.

It’s bad though.

Tails204

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

Tails204
AunTheKnight wrote:
poggopchamp wrote:
Reason is it is fun.

It’s bad though.

Absolutely wrong.

JackRoach
Tails204 wrote:

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

Maybe in bullet, but not rapid.

AunTheKnight
Tails204 wrote:

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

How are you 2000?

somebodywhoateapie
Tails204 wrote:

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

All of your games are super fast blitz. They're absolute chaos and the eval bar has a stroke in every one of them. You touched rapid once and left it in the dust. The only thing your games tell me is that you have good internet and a nice mouse, not that the wayward queen attack is good.

Tails204
somebodywhoateapie wrote:
Tails204 wrote:

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

All of your games are super fast blitz. They're absolute chaos and the eval bar has a stroke in every one of them. You touched rapid once and left it in the dust. The only thing your games tell me is that you have good internet and a nice mouse, not that the wayward queen attack is good.

said the person whose rating is 800.
LOL. If you want to talk with me about ratings, it's definitely a bad idea.

I used this opening in official tourneys, with some success. And I'm sure of what I tell you, this opening is not bad if you know how to play it.

JackRoach
Tails204 wrote:
somebodywhoateapie wrote:
Tails204 wrote:

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

All of your games are super fast blitz. They're absolute chaos and the eval bar has a stroke in every one of them. You touched rapid once and left it in the dust. The only thing your games tell me is that you have good internet and a nice mouse, not that the wayward queen attack is good.

said the person whose rating is 800.
LOL. 

I used this opening in official tourneys, with some success. And I'm sure of what I tell you, this opening is not bad if you know how to play it.

In bullet?

Tails204

The quick brown fox, who loves wayward openings

somebodywhoateapie
Tails204 wrote:
somebodywhoateapie wrote:
Tails204 wrote:

After e4 e5 I usually play Qh5 because it's a good and reasonable opening.
If you don't believe me, you can check my games.

All you need is how to play it. 
By the way, Kf3 is a cowardly and boring move.

All of your games are super fast blitz. They're absolute chaos and the eval bar has a stroke in every one of them. You touched rapid once and left it in the dust. The only thing your games tell me is that you have good internet and a nice mouse, not that the wayward queen attack is good.

said the person whose rating is 800.
LOL. If you want to talk with me about ratings, it's definitely a bad idea.

I used this opening in official tourneys, with some success. And I'm sure of what I tell you, this opening is not bad if you know how to play it.

Yeah, my bullet rating is 800 because I've never touched it. I rarely play blitz too, because why would I? I'm still learning. My actual rating is 1000, and you're blatantly trying to misrepresent me. Why did you bring ratings up anyway? I never mentioned them once, nor are they important to the conversation.

 

So how do you play the wayward queen then? Have your scholar's mate fail, then waste time going back to f3 in an attempt to continue the attack against 2000 rated opponents? If they block with the knight, then your queen just looks stupid and is blocking the knight. If the queens get traded, you just wasted all that time moving the queen, only for it to be off the board with the opponent having a developmental lead.

What's good about that?

gregory9310

I guess they are hoping for a blunder or a mouseslip? Not objectively terrible, but not good either(-0.3)

locoturbo

"Why does anyone use the wayward queen attack?"

(proceeds to play from among the very few responses that will effectively repel said attack)

Gee I don't know, maybe because it succeeds often enough to be worth it?