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Reference position · Black to move

C25 Vienna Game

Also filed here: Vienna Gambit.

C25 holds 31 named lines from two openings, most of them (16) under Vienna Game. It leaves C20 (King’s Pawn Game) with 2.Nc3. Material is no longer level at the end of 16 of its lines; the widest gap, four pawns in Black’s favour, comes in Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Muzio Gambit. Lines filed under C26 reach one of its named positions by a different move order.

Score sheet
#WhiteBlack
1e4e5
2Nc3

The move that completes C25

The reference line of C26 plays all of these moves and continues beyond them; C25 is the position reached at 2.Nc3.

  1. 2.Nc3 The knight leaves b1 for c3, opening a line for the rook on a1, guarding the pawn on e4.

Lines filed under C25

All 31 share the start 1.e4 e5 and then split two ways at White’s move 2.

NameAfter the shared startPliesAt the end
Vienna Game2.Nc33
Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense2.Nc3 Bc54
Vienna Game: Max Lange Defense2.Nc3 Nc64
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f45
Vienna Game: Fyfe Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.d45
Vienna Game: Giraffe Attack2.Nc3 Bc5 3.Qg45
Vienna Game: Hamppe-Meitner Variation2.Nc3 Bc5 3.Na45
Vienna Game: Omaha Gambit2.Nc3 d6 3.f45
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g35
Vienna Game: Philidor Countergambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.d4 f56
Vienna Game: Zhuravlev Countergambit2.Nc3 Bb4 3.Qg4 Nf66
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Knight Variation2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf37Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d47Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Cunningham Defense2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 Be78Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Quelle Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 Bc5 4.fxe5 d68White +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Pierce Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d49Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit, Main Line2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke29Black +1
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Meitner-Mieses Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Qg4 Qf6 5.Nd59
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit, Fraser-Minckwitz Defense2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2 b610Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit, Paulsen Defense2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2 d610Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit, Sörensen Defense2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2 g510Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit, Zukertort Defense2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2 d510Black +1
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Bc5 5.Nge2 d510
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Mariotti Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 h5 5.Nf3 h410
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng511Black +1
Vienna Game: Hamppe-Muzio Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.Bc4 g4 6.O-O11Black +1, White castled
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit, Alapin Variation2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng5 d612Black +1
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Muzio Gambit2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.Bc4 g4 6.O-O gxf312Black +4, White castled
Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Hamppe-Allgaier Gambit, Thorold Variation2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Nc3 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng5 h6 7.Nxf7 Kxf7 8.d415Black +3
Vienna Game: Hamppe-Muzio, Dubois Variation2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.Bc4 g4 6.O-O gxf3 7.Qxf3 Ne5 8.Qxf4 Qf616Black +2, White castled
Vienna Game: Pierce Gambit, Rushmere Attack2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Bc4 gxf3 7.O-O d5 8.exd5 Bg4 9.dxc617White castled

The road to C25

  1. 1.e4B00 King’s Pawn Game
  2. 1...e5C20 King’s Pawn Game
  3. 2.Nc3C25

The position after 2.Nc3

White has brought out the knight on c3; Black has not yet moved a knight or bishop. Black is to move and has 29 legal moves.

WhiteBlackMaterial (pawn units)3939Minor pieces developed10Moves spent on pawns11Pawns on d4, e4, d5, e511Squares attacked in the other half55not castlednot castled

Codes that branch off from C25

The reference lines of two other codes leave C25 from two of its named positions; “From” gives the last part of that position’s name.

CodeFromMovesReference line
C26Vienna Game2...Nf6Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation
C28Max Lange Defense3.Bc4 Nf6Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Three Knights Variation

Closest boards in other codes

CodeLineDiffers on
A00Van Geet Openingfour squares: e2, e4, e5, e7
A21English Opening: King’s English Variation, Reversed Sicilianfour squares: c2, e2, c4, e4
B00King’s Pawn Gamefour squares: b1, c3, e5, e7
B23Sicilian Defense: Closedfour squares: c5, e5, c7, e7
C00French Defensefour squares: b1, c3, e5, e6
C23Bishop’s Openingfour squares: b1, f1, c3, c4
C27Vienna Game: Frankenstein-Dracula Variationfour squares: f1, c4, e4, g8

Where lines continue from here

Twenty-eight named lines filed under other codes pass through the position after 2.Nc3. Besides the codes above, they belong to C27, C29, C31.

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Other move orders

  • Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation is also reached inside C26 Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Pollock Gambit, whose order is 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.Nge2 d5.

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