Vienna game

The Vienna Game also frequently features attacks on the Black center by means of f2-f4.

White can then transpose into the Vienna Game (3.

He made contributions to the Vienna Game (1.

The Vienna Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves:

He is also known for the Mieses Variation of the Vienna Game, which runs 1.

Nf3 from the Vienna Game.

The Vienna Game variation 1.

Ultimately giving up on the Bishop's Opening, he switched to the Vienna Game, claiming a win with White after 1.

Nc3 (Vienna Game, by transposition)

These openings have some similarities with each other, in particular the Bishop's Opening frequently transposes to variations of the Vienna Game.

He is credited with coming up with the name of the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation in his 1975 Vienna Game book.

This line often comes about by transposition from lines of the Vienna Game or Bishop's Opening, when White plays f2-f4 before Nf3.

The line is seen extremely infrequently in top-level play, mainly because the Vienna Game is seen so little at top-level play.

The variation of the Vienna Game it uses was named the Hamppe-Meitner Variation in honour of the two players.

This is the Vienna Game, an opening which Hamppe made major contributions to, giving his name to two variations in the Vienna Gambit.

However, he was unable to prove this by defeating players stronger than himself, and later abandoned the Bishop's Opening for the Vienna Game, making the same claim.

The f2-f4 push gives the Bishop's Opening an affinity with the King's Gambit and the Vienna Game, two openings that share this characteristic.

The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation is a chess opening, usually considered a branch of the Vienna Game, but can also be reached from the Bishop's Opening.

Used only for some of the oldest openings, for example Scotch Game, Vienna Game, and Four Knights Game.

Weaver W. Adams, whom Grandmaster Larry Evans described as having an "all or nothing" mentality, famously claimed that the Vienna Game led to a forced win for White.

Carsten Hansen wrote of Schiller's book on the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game that it was the "by far the worst book that I have ever seen."

The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game regularly provides swashbuckling play and Nunn's game with Jacob Øst-Hansen at Teesside 1974, was no exception.

Ilia Abramovich Kan vs Jose Raul Capablanca, Moscow 1936, Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense (C25), 0-1 Another demonstration of Capablanca's endgame supremacy.

The fianchetto is less common in Open Game (1.e4 e5) but the King's bishop is sometimes fianchettoed by Black in the Spanish Game or by White in an uncommon variation of the Vienna Game.

Cox, however, wrote that many White players are bluffing, and in fact know nothing about either the Vienna Game or the Four Knights Game, to which the game can easily transpose if Black plays 2...e5, citing one book which recommended 2.