user21526: [FEN ""]
[startply "5"]

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3

I reached this position after following the line for the Englund Gambit. Lichess says that this is known as the Mosquito Gambit. Is it a joke opening, or does it have some hidden ideas, making it useful?

user24920: The Mosquito Gambit should only be played in faster blitz time controls and bullet like 3|2 or 1|0 for psychological purposes against weaker opponents. Only play it against weaker players because higher rated people know how to convert a material advantage to a winning one. It is in fact marginally better fred defense, southern variation.

user21014: Normally you sacrifice material for the initiative or a positional compensation, but this opening clearly has nothing in it and all you are doing by bringing the queen out early is allowing white to gain a tempo on it. I would say it's like a Scandinavian a pawn down and the Scandinavian by itself is quite bad.

user19877: It is safe to say that it is nothing more than a joke.
First, as a reasonably strong player, I cannot see any redeeming reason to play that...no tricks, no nothing.
Second, in Mega 2020, there are only three games out of more than 8 million total, which I will give below; and looking at them, it is clear that black did not take any of them seriously. Maybe the most amazing thing about them is that one game was actually played by the famous Grandmasters Tony Miles and Robert Huebner, but that was only a 5-move draw.
Lastly, and I had never even cracked this book before, but I have the famous Stefan Bucker series in German on the Blackmar-Diemar Gambit, and the companion volume on the Englund. Bucker does not even mention 2...Qh4 in the Englund book.
 [Event "Interpolis-09"]
 [Site "Tilburg"]
 [Date "1985.09.13"]
 [Round "12"]
 [White "Miles, Anthony John"]
 [Black "Huebner, Robert"]
 [Result "1/2-1/2"]
 [ECO "A40"]
 [WhiteElo "2560"]
 [BlackElo "2620"]
 [PlyCount "9"]
 [EventDate "1985.08.28"]
 [EventType "tourn"]
 [EventRounds "14"]
 [EventCountry "NED"]
 [EventCategory "15"]
 [FEN ""]

 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qa4 4. Nc3 Qa5 5. e4 1/2-1/2

Game 2 might just have been very weak children.
 [Event "Brasileiro U18"]
 [Site "Brazil"]
 [Date "1999.??.??"]
 [Round "?"]
 [White "Becker, Gabriel"]
 [Black "Zap, Felipe"]
 [Result "1-0"]
 [ECO "A40"]
 [PlyCount "30"]
 [EventDate "1999.??.??"]
 [EventType "tourn"]
 [EventRounds "10"]
 [EventCountry "BRA"]
 [FEN ""]

 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qe4 4. Nc3 Qg6 5. Qd3 Qc6 6. e4 Bc5 7. Be3 Bb6 8. Bxb6 cxb6 9. Be2 Nh6 10. O-O Na6 11. Qd5 Qxd5 12. exd5 Ng4 13. Nd4 h6 14. Bxa6 O-O 15. Bd3 Re8 1-0

And the last game.
 [Event "LIB-ch"]
 [Site "Beirut"]
 [Date "2007.07.26"]
 [Round "2"]
 [White "Aramali, Ohannes"]
 [Black "Zahr, Hassan"]
 [Result "1-0"]
 [ECO "A40"]
 [PlyCount "39"]
 [EventDate "2007.07.25"]
 [EventType "swiss"]
 [EventRounds "9"]
 [EventCountry "LBN"]
 [FEN ""]

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qb4+ 4. c3 Qb5 5. e4 Qa5 6. Bc4 Na6 7. O-O c6 8. Ng5 Nh6 9. Qf3 Qxe5 10. Nxf7 Rg8 11. Nxe5 Rh8 12. Bxh6 gxh6 13. Qf7+ Kd8 14. Rd1 Nb8 15. Na3 Bxa3 16. bxa3 Re8 17. Qf6+ Kc7 18. Qd6+ Kb6 19. Rab1+ Ka5 20. Qb4# 1-0


21526: <pre><code>[FEN ""]
[startply "5"]

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3
</code></pre>

<p>I reached this position after following the line for the Englund Gambit. Lichess says that this is known as the Mosquito Gambit. Is it a joke opening, or does it have some hidden ideas, making it useful?</p>
 24920: <p>The Mosquito Gambit should only be played in faster blitz time controls and bullet like 3|2 or 1|0 for psychological purposes against weaker opponents. Only play it against weaker players because higher rated people know how to convert a material advantage to a winning one. It is in fact marginally better fred defense, southern variation.</p>
 21014: <p>Normally you sacrifice material for the initiative or a positional compensation, but this opening clearly has nothing in it and all you are doing by bringing the queen out early is allowing white to gain a tempo on it. I would say it's like a Scandinavian a pawn down and the Scandinavian by itself is quite bad.</p>
 19877: <p>It is safe to say that it is nothing more than a joke.</p>

<p>First, as a reasonably strong player, I cannot see any redeeming reason to play that...no tricks, no nothing.</p>

<p>Second, in Mega 2020, there are only three games out of more than 8 million total, which I will give below; and looking at them, it is clear that black did not take any of them seriously. Maybe the most amazing thing about them is that one game was actually played by the famous Grandmasters Tony Miles and Robert Huebner, but that was only a 5-move draw.</p>

<p>Lastly, and I had never even cracked this book before, but I have the famous Stefan Bucker series in German on the Blackmar-Diemar Gambit, and the companion volume on the Englund. Bucker does not even mention 2...Qh4 in the Englund book.</p>

<pre><code> [Event "Interpolis-09"]
 [Site "Tilburg"]
 [Date "1985.09.13"]
 [Round "12"]
 [White "Miles, Anthony John"]
 [Black "Huebner, Robert"]
 [Result "1/2-1/2"]
 [ECO "A40"]
 [WhiteElo "2560"]
 [BlackElo "2620"]
 [PlyCount "9"]
 [EventDate "1985.08.28"]
 [EventType "tourn"]
 [EventRounds "14"]
 [EventCountry "NED"]
 [EventCategory "15"]
 [FEN ""]

 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qa4 4. Nc3 Qa5 5. e4 1/2-1/2
</code></pre>

<p>Game 2 might just have been very weak children.</p>

<pre><code> [Event "Brasileiro U18"]
 [Site "Brazil"]
 [Date "1999.??.??"]
 [Round "?"]
 [White "Becker, Gabriel"]
 [Black "Zap, Felipe"]
 [Result "1-0"]
 [ECO "A40"]
 [PlyCount "30"]
 [EventDate "1999.??.??"]
 [EventType "tourn"]
 [EventRounds "10"]
 [EventCountry "BRA"]
 [FEN ""]

 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qe4 4. Nc3 Qg6 5. Qd3 Qc6 6. e4 Bc5 7. Be3 Bb6 8. Bxb6 cxb6 9. Be2 Nh6 10. O-O Na6 11. Qd5 Qxd5 12. exd5 Ng4 13. Nd4 h6 14. Bxa6 O-O 15. Bd3 Re8 1-0
</code></pre>

<p>And the last game.</p>

<pre><code> [Event "LIB-ch"]
 [Site "Beirut"]
 [Date "2007.07.26"]
 [Round "2"]
 [White "Aramali, Ohannes"]
 [Black "Zahr, Hassan"]
 [Result "1-0"]
 [ECO "A40"]
 [PlyCount "39"]
 [EventDate "2007.07.25"]
 [EventType "swiss"]
 [EventRounds "9"]
 [EventCountry "LBN"]
 [FEN ""]

1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Qh4 3. Nf3 Qb4+ 4. c3 Qb5 5. e4 Qa5 6. Bc4 Na6 7. O-O c6 8. Ng5 Nh6 9. Qf3 Qxe5 10. Nxf7 Rg8 11. Nxe5 Rh8 12. Bxh6 gxh6 13. Qf7+ Kd8 14. Rd1 Nb8 15. Na3 Bxa3 16. bxa3 Re8 17. Qf6+ Kc7 18. Qd6+ Kb6 19. Rab1+ Ka5 20. Qb4# 1-0
</code></pre>
