

d5) which enters the Vienna Game Main Line. This single best response by Black to the Vienna Gambit is (3. I’m not going to cover the Max Lange Vienna Gambit in this video, but I have a few videos on the opening: Vienna Game Main Line (1. This variation is quite rare, and it isn’t as good as the Falkbeer Vienna Gambit, which is usually what we mean by “Vienna Gambit”. f4) and this is also known as the “Vienna Gambit”. On move 2, Black could play (2… Nc6), which is known as the “Max Lange Defense” of the Vienna Game. f4)! White wins around 60% of the time from this position.īefore we move on, I’m going to just flag a couple of things that I won’t be covering. f4), otherwise known as the Vienna Gambit (1. This now allows White to play the wonderful, fun, and provocative, (3. Nf6) – the “Falkbeer Variation” of the Vienna Game. According to the Lichess community database of lower rated games of blitz and rapid, the most common next move by Black, occurring a third of the time, is the natural looking (2. Nc3), which is the start of the Vienna Game opening.īlack now has a variety of options. On the second move White develops the queen’s knight (2. To play the Vienna Gambit, you must have the white pieces and begin with the king’s pawn opening, and Black must respond with their king’s pawn (1. The Vienna Gambit is credited to being developed by Carl Hamppe, a Swiss government official in the 1800s who spent much of his time in chess cafes in Vienna! In the earliest days, “Hamppe’s Game” was seen as a potential way of playing a delayed King’s Gambit.
