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a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8
Reference position · White to move

C26 Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation

Also filed here: Bishop’s Opening.

C26 holds ten named lines from two openings, most of them (eight) under Vienna Game. It leaves C25 (Vienna Game) with 2...Nf6. Material is no longer level at the end of two of its lines; the widest gap, one pawn in White’s favour, comes in Vienna Game: Mieses Variation, Erben Gambit. That final move, by the knight, opens a line for the rook on h8.

Score sheet
#WhiteBlack
1e4e5
2Nc3Nf6

Lines filed under C26

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

NameAfter the shared startPliesAt the end
Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation2.Nc3 Nf64
Vienna Game: Mengarini Variation2.Nc3 Nf6 3.a35
Vienna Game: Mieses Variation2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g35
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc45
Bishop’s Opening: Horwitz Gambit2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nc3 b56
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Reversed Spanish2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bb46
Bishop’s Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Spielmann Attack2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d37
Vienna Game: Mieses Variation, Erben Gambit2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.exd5 c68White +1
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Eifel Gambit2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nge2 b58
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Pollock Gambit2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 Bc5 4.Bg2 Nc6 5.Nge2 d5 6.exd511White +1

The road to C26

  1. 1.e4one earlier stop: B00
  2. 1...e5C20 King’s Pawn Game
  3. 2.Nc3C25 Vienna Game
  4. 2...Nf6C26

The position after 2...Nf6

White has brought out the knight on c3; Black the knight on f6. White is to move and has 31 legal moves.

WhiteBlackMaterial (pawn units)3939Minor pieces developed11Moves spent on pawns11Pawns on d4, e4, d5, e511Squares attacked in the other half56not castlednot castled

Codes that branch off from C26

The reference lines of two other codes leave C26 from two of its named positions; “From” gives the last part of that position’s name.

CodeFromMovesReference line
C27Stanley Variation3...Nxe4Vienna Game: Frankenstein-Dracula Variation
C29Falkbeer Variation3.f4Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit

Closest boards in other codes

CodeLineDiffers on
A18English Opening: Mikenas-Carls Variationfour squares: c2, c4, e5, e6
A22English Opening: King’s English Variation, Two Knights Variationfour squares: c2, e2, c4, e4
B02Alekhine Defensefour squares: b1, c3, e5, e7
C20King’s Pawn Gamefour squares: b1, c3, f6, g8
C24Bishop’s Opening: Berlin Defensefour squares: b1, f1, c3, c4
C28Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Three Knights Variationfour squares: f1, c4, c6, b8
C42Petrov’s Defensefour squares: b1, g1, c3, f3

Where lines continue from here

Sixteen named lines filed under other codes pass through the position after 2...Nf6. Besides the codes above, they belong to C31.

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