Thank you for your tips.

I will try one of this set up next time.
But it could take a while, as it is not very common to face this opening.

Mani

The setup with Bd3/Nc3/Nge2 is recommended in several books (Bronznik's "1.d4 - Beat the Guerillas" being one of them) and is pretty effective. There are many good options against Owen's Defence though - that's just one of them. I would avoid playing c4, since that transposes to the English Defence, which has a slightly better reputation for Black.

Hello,

So far after 1. d4 e6 I play 2 e4.  It is not that often that you can have "total" center control, so if black allows me to take it, I grab it!

My results are pretty good against Pirc/modern with the 150 attack, fairly balanced against French defense, but I have problems after b6.

So far I play Nf3/Nc3/Be3/Bd3, thinking it cannot be bad... but my results are pretty poor, and worse, most of the time the game is boring : I do not manage to get a good attack.

I checked in a book. Strangely enough, they talk about e4/d4 against the French defense, about d4/c4 against e6/b6, but not at all about e4/d4 against e6/b6

Do you have a simple plan against this set-up? Especially I consider pushing c4 (or, why not, f4, which however seems doubtful).

Thank you for your advice,
Mani