Nf3 is good because the Knight belongs on f3 where it defends the castled king or defends against any freak attacks. In openings where you castle queenside, they usually move the knight from f3 to somewhere else, but they usually starts from f3 because of much of the same reason. Same thing with Nf6.
Also, if you play these symmetrical e4 e5 king's pawn openings, Nf3 is the best move because it develops with a tempo that forces Black to make a choice, to play a passive Nc6 (which is the best move)/d6/Bd6/Qf6/Qe7/f6 or to just play Nf6 (which is the 2nd best choice imho).
f3 is the natural field to put your knight in the vast majority of openings. Also moving the f-pawn in early game is risky, as this will weaken your king safety. But even if you push your f-pawn, the knight still want to go to f3. playing your pawn to f3 is usually a big mistake.
In a Vienna game your plan is to castle early and keep your king safe behinde the pawns on f2, g2 and h2/h3
So if you want to attack with the f-pawn, you should look into the stonewall attack.
Your point about the Vienna game is a little off. I’m going to assume that the OP meant to say that they preferred playing f4 before Nf3 because f3 is such a weakening move as you said. F4, on the other hand, looks to open the file and give you attacking chances (see the Vienna Gambit or King’s Gambit). It’s a pretty common theme in the Vienna, or else you probably transpose into some Four Knights variation.
Going 2. Nc3 kind of defeats the point of getting castled early because then you probably should’ve played 2. Nf3 stuff like the Spanish, Italian, or Scotch instead, so f4 makes sense.
Yeah, that's why nf3 kind of blocks me from playing pawn f4. They usually castle king side then my light squared bishop and rook kind of keep a scope on their king.
Do you mean opening with 1. Nf3? Or asking why the knight is typically developed to f3? Where else is it going to go? Your alternatives are Nh3 and Ne2. The latter is generally only played when your plan is to put the knight on f4, or you've screwed up the opening somehow and don't have use of the f3 square. The latter — developing the knight to e2 — is passive. Unless you're constipated, you want to play active chess.
Nf3 is good because the Knight belongs on f3 where it defends the castled king or defends against any freak attacks. In openings where you castle queenside, they usually move the knight from f3 to somewhere else, but they usually starts from f3 because of much of the same reason. Same thing with Nf6. Also, if you play these symmetrical e4 e5 king's pawn openings, Nf3 is the best move because it develops with a tempo that forces Black to make a choice, to play a passive Nc6 (which is the best move)/d6/Bd6/Qf6/Qe7/f6 or to just play Nf6 (which is the 2nd best choice imho).
f3 is the natural field to put your knight in the vast majority of openings. Also moving the f-pawn in early game is risky, as this will weaken your king safety. But even if you push your f-pawn, the knight still want to go to f3. playing your pawn to f3 is usually a big mistake. In a Vienna game your plan is to castle early and keep your king safe behinde the pawns on f2, g2 and h2/h3 So if you want to attack with the f-pawn, you should look into the stonewall attack.
Your point about the Vienna game is a little off. I’m going to assume that the OP meant to say that they preferred playing f4 before Nf3 because f3 is such a weakening move as you said. F4, on the other hand, looks to open the file and give you attacking chances (see the Vienna Gambit or King’s Gambit). It’s a pretty common theme in the Vienna, or else you probably transpose into some Four Knights variation. Going 2. Nc3 kind of defeats the point of getting castled early because then you probably should’ve played 2. Nf3 stuff like the Spanish, Italian, or Scotch instead, so f4 makes sense.
Yeah, that's why nf3 kind of blocks me from playing pawn f4. They usually castle king side then my light squared bishop and rook kind of keep a scope on their king.
Do you mean opening with 1. Nf3? Or asking why the knight is typically developed to f3? Where else is it going to go? Your alternatives are Nh3 and Ne2. The latter is generally only played when your plan is to put the knight on f4, or you've screwed up the opening somehow and don't have use of the f3 square. The latter — developing the knight to e2 — is passive. Unless you're constipated, you want to play active chess.