King's Pawn Game:Wayward Queen Attack

Also called the Parham Attack. The queen comes out on move two to aim at f7 — the idea behind the Scholar’s Mate — but Black can chase it and gain time.

It is reached after 3 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5. It is a line of the King's Pawn Game.

Black is to move and has 26 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 977,212 different games. Those games reach 331,057 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 2 further lines after this position, such as Kiddie Countergambit (2... Nf6) and Mellon Gambit (2... Nc6 3. Bc4 Nh6 4. d3 g6 5. Qf3 f6 6. Ne2 d5).

No other order of these moves reaches this position: each move depends on the one before.