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This lesson is designed for chess beginners to learn the Vienna Game chess opening. The lesson includes the following 3 chess videos on the Vienna Game: Video 1 General Information, Video 2 How to Play, and Video 3 Learn This Trap. Video 1 on the Vienna Game chess opening is located on this page below.
Video 2 and Video 3 (see their links below) are located on separated pages, and they will open in the same window of your browser. This chess lesson also includes the text to read, the pictures to see, and the PGN file to download and learn the real games which were played by chess masters on the Vienna Game.
Note. At the bottom of Part I (Vienna Game: Official Data and Lines), you can see and study 6 proven lines how to correctly play the Vienna Game.
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I. Vienna Game: Official Data and Lines
Opening Name: Vienna Game
Type: An Open Game opening (starts with 1.e4 e5)
Move Order: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3
ECO Codes: C25-C29
The Vienna Game chess opening was invented in the 19th century by a group of Vienna's chess players lead by chess master Carl Hamppe. Vienna Game was born as "delayed King's Gambit" with White playing 3.f4. This variation is still being played today, together with some other variations.
Within the Vienna Game, Black can get good position. To answer Vienna Game, the best 3 moves for Black are: *2... Nf6, *2... Nc6, and *2... Bc5. Black often uses the strong pawn move on d5, which works in many positions of this opening. However, in rare situations White might trap on Black's d5.
The Vienna Game trap with d5 is shown in Video 3: 1 Trap - Learn Vienna Game Chess Opening Trap. The Vienna Game may transpose into the King's Gambit Declined, the Four Knights Game, and some other openings. The Vienna Game is organic and very beautiful in play. It can be met at the top-level of chess.
Study 6 proven lines how to correctly play the Vienna Game:
• 2... Nf6 3.f4 d5! 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7!
(sharp: if 5.d3 Qh4+ 6.g3 Nxg3 7.Nf3 Qh5 8.Nd5 Nxh1 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8)
• 2... Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 (if 4.Nxe4 d5!) 5.Bb3 Nc6 (or 5.Qxe5+ Qe7)
• 2... Nf6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 d6 5.Nf3 Nc6
• 2... Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Bb4 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6
• 2... Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.Be3
II. Vienna Game: 3 Videos and 1 Trap
Now, you are recommended to see Video 1: Vienna Game - General Information. To learn the Vienna Game chess opening in a visual way, just click the Play button below:
• If the opening video hasn't shown up, please wait a little.
• If the video stops, drag a little right the player's handle.
To see Video 2, click the next link:
• Video 2: Vienna Game How to Play Some Variations
To see Video 3, click the next link:
• Video 3: 1 Trap - Learn Vienna Game Chess Opening Trap
In Part III, you can download the Vienna Game PGN file to open and learn how this chess opening is played at the chess master level.
III. Vienna Game: Download PGN File to Learn Real Vienna Games
Find below the Vienna-Game.pgn file to download and see how the Vienna Game works in real games at the chess master level. To read the file, you will need a PGN Viewer Program. See Lesson 16, which explains you how to download a decent freeware PGN Viewer Program - you will need this chess program to open and replay all chess games within the PGN file. Before downloading the Vienna-Game.pgn file, please read how it was compiled and what you will see within it.
The Vienna-Game.pgn file was created in a special way, explained below:
• The file includes main variations and displays how to correctly play two of them.
• The file includes 24 chess games played on the Vienna Game in the year 2009.
• The chess games were selected randomly, all FIDE players rated 2051-2725.
• All the names of the chess players and their ratings were removed.
• The game results and tournament names were removed as well.
• The chess games are shown from the start of the game to the middle game.
• At this point, the positions were analyzed by a computer program.
• You will see the result of the program's analysis, like this...
• "If White finds a best line ..., Black will be still better at 0.52 pawns."
• The computer program's analysis will help you:
• To analyze who was better at playing the Vienna Game.
• To understand how to correctly continue the middle game...
To see how the Vienna Game works in real games at the chess master level, download and read with a PGN viewer the next PGN file:
• Download the Vienna-Game.pgn File (14 KB)
Note 1. The above file is to be downloaded from Google Drive. First click the above link to open, then click the download icon to download.
Note 2. The above link will open in a new window of your web browser.
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The next chess opening to study on this website is the Philidor Defense (Lesson 28). And on this page you've learned the Vienna Game chess opening, ECO codes C25-C29, which starts with the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3... The Vienna Game is a representative of open game chess openings because it starts with 1.e4 e5.
