18 Jun 08
Originally posted by moteutschStrictly speaking, the Vienna Gambit is 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4. After 2...Nf6 3.f4 isn't really a gambit, since black can hardly take the pawn.
Whatever happened to the Vienna Gambit?
[fen]rnbqkb1r/pppp1ppp/5n2/4p3/4PP2/2N5/PPPP2PP/R1BQKBNR+b+KQkq[/fen]
18 Jun 08
Originally posted by greenpawn34I had that problem with Firefox (my browser of choice), but Internet Exploiter loaded it with no problems.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1152032
I do not know - Firewall or anti virus stuff is stopping me
from getting there - they must be trying to download
java script as soon as you hit the page - paste it on this site.
[Event "Leipzig -"]
[Site "Leipzig -"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Johannes Zukertort"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "C26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "31"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bc4 Bg4 6.O-O Be7 7.d3
Nh5 8.fxe5 Nxe5 9.Nxe5 Bxd1 10.Bxf7+ Kf8 11.Bxh5+ Bf6 12.Rxf6+
gxf6 13.Bh6+ Ke7 14.Nd5+ Ke6 15.Bf7+ Kxe5 16.c3 1-0
18 Jun 08
Originally posted by Sam The ShamGame 4510833
I play it all the time, it's amazing how many people take the pawn and end up with a difficult game after pawn-e5 forces the knight to retreat back to it's original square. If they try anything else, it just gets worse for them.
Game in progress so no comments please.
28 Jun 08
Lately I've encountered the following a lot: 1.e4,e5 2.Nc3,Nf6 3.Bc4,c6,a line I almost never faced before.
The only literature I have on the Vienna is Santasiere/Smith's book: The vienna game and gambit,2nd revised edition 1992,which treats this line only very brief and is probably a bit outdated.
So now I wonder,has there been a reappraisal of this c6 line and nobody told me?