12/29/2023 0 Comments Vienna game d6That game continued 3.d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Be6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Re1 Bf6 9.Ne4 0-0 10.d3 Be7 11.a3 Nb6 12.b4, resulting in a position which the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings assesses as slightly better for White. The move 3.g3, the Mieses Variation, is a quiet continuation in which White fianchettoes his king's bishop, a line played by Vasily Smyslov on a few occasions, most notably in a win over Lev Polugaevsky in the 1961 USSR Championship. or the complexities of 5.Nc6 6.Nb5 g6 7.Qf3 f5 8.Qd5 Qe7 9.Nxc7+ Kd8 10.Nxa8 b6, which the Irish correspondence chess player and theorist Tim Harding extravagantly dubbed "the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation." 3.g3 After 3.Nxe4, White usually continues instead 4.Qh5 (threatening Qxf7#) 4.Nd6 5.Bb3 when Black can either go for the relatively quiet waters of 5.Be7 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Nxe5 g6 8.Qe2 (or 8.Nxc6 dxc6 9.Qe5 0-0) Nd4 9.Qd3 Nxb3 10.axb3 Nf5 11.0-0 d6, which led to equality in Anand- Ivanchuk, Roquebrune 1992. 1902) Qd7!, with a large advantage for Black in view of his bishop pair and pawn center. Lasker, simultaneous exhibition, Breslau c. The attractive-looking 4.Bxf7+ is weak after 4.Kxf7 5.Nxe4 d5! (inferior is 5.Nc6 6.Qf3+, when Black cannot play 6.Kg8? because of 7.Ng5! 1-0 Davids- Diggle, London Banks League 1949, while 6.Ke8 leaves the king awkwardly placed in the center) 6.Qf3+ (6.Qh5+ g6 7.Qxe5? Bh6! wins for Black) Kg8 7.Ng5!? (hoping for 7.Qxg5? 8.Qxd5+ and mate next move, Schottlaender- Ed. Also possible is 3.Nxe4, when 4.Nxe4 d5, forking bishop and knight, is fine for Black. Black has several choices here 3.Bc5 can transpose to the King's Gambit Declined after 4.d3 d6 5.f4 Nc6 6.Nf3 after 3.Nc6 4.d3, 4.Na5, 4.Bc5 or 4.d6 are all playable 3.Bb4 4.f4 Nxe4 5.Qh5 0-0 leads to wild but probably equal play, according to de Firmian in MCO-15. The move 3.Bc4 leads to a position which can also be reached from the Bishop's Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4). White obtains open lines and attacking chances, but Black can usually hold the balance with correct play. 5.d3 is also possible, but the normal continuation is 5.Nf3. After 4.fxe5 Nxe4, 5.Qf3 is well met by 5.Nc6, with the point 6.Nxe4 Nd4. It is best met by 3.d5, striking back in the center, since 3.exf4 4.e5 Qe7 5.Qe2 forces Black's knight to retreat. 3.f4Īt grandmaster level, the move 3.f4., the Vienna Gambit, is considered too risky an opening. Note that 3.Nf3 transposes to the Petrov's Three Knights Game, which after 3.Nc6 leads to the Four Knights Game. White has three main options: 3.f4, 3.Bc4, and 3.g3. Nick de Firmian concludes in the 15th edition of Modern Chess Openings, however, that the opening leads to equality with best play by both sides. Adams famously claimed that the Vienna Game led to a forced win for White. The opening can also lead to the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation. The original idea behind the Vienna Game was to play a delayed King's Gambit with f4, but in modern play White often plays more quietly (for example by fianchettoing his king's bishop with g3 and Bg2). A book reviewer wrote in the New York Times in 1888 that "since Morphy only one new opening has been introduced, the 'Vienna'." White's second move is less common than 2.Nf3, and is also more recent. The Vienna Game is an opening in chess that begins with the moves: 1.
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