Opening · played as White

Vienna Game

2.Nc3 keeps every option open, then f4 hits like a delayed King's Gambit. The Vienna Gambit against ...Nf6 and Bc4 pressure against ...Nc6.

A position this opening is aiming for.

You play
White
Variations covered
50

The main line

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7 6.d4 O-O 7.Bd3 f5 8.exf6 Bxf6

Some of the variations

…and 44 more in the trainer.

Train it

ChessReflex drills the branch points where a line splits rather than making you replay it move by move, so a repertoire this size is a handful of decisions instead of hundreds of moves. Free, and no account needed to start.

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