How do youdefend against e-4?

Originally posted by Squelchbelch
Looking at the opening it should be fairly easy to get safe while developing the black pieces:

1.e4...e5
2.Qh5?...Nc6
3.Bc4 (I'm assuming the whole opening is an amatuerish hack at f7)... then black has a few options- Qe7, Nh6 (on the rim is grim!) & my choice - g6. Then the queen has to "go away" to be polite.

After g6, look to fianchetto the bishop to g7, knight f6 etc..

Hardly time to resign, eh?😛

You are right, but two of your options- Qe7 and Nh6- I would avoid.
Qe7 blocks your development of the black-squared bishop unless you use an opening move to play g6- but a Bishop on g7 is still, in my opinion, detatched and cannot help very much in the middlegame.
Nh6 is very vulnerable. If, for example, White plays these moves:
WHITE BLACK
d4 exd4
Bxh6 .......
If Black plays PxB after this, then the Knight has been removed, so if Black retakes, then Qxf7# is the end of the game. If it continues:
WHITE BLACK
...... g6
Qe5+ (For example) Be7
QxR+
and White earns a decisive advantage.
Then it is forced:
Bf8
QxB#
You know that but a lot of my friends fall for it so I just thought I'd post that...

Originally posted by ChessJester
How can you say that "trumps" it when the final result is a draw?

Higher average rating, perhaps.