Noob vs Noob UNPLUGGED #11 | Vienna Game Main Line 😌♟️🎵
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CHESS UNPLUGGED | Sometimes, I just like to unwind by not thinking too hard, play a couple of quick casual unrated games, while listening to some slow jazz! 😌♟️🎵
I haven’t been playing much chess recently as I’ve been quite busy with work. However, this morning, a cloudy and somewhat drizzly day in Sydney, was the perfect setting for a quick game before beginning the rest of the weekend!
And I had a lovely game indeed! I had the White pieces and managed to get the Vienna Game with (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3), thank you Caïssa, and Black responded with the very natural Falkbeer Variation (2… Nf6) which allows my favourite, the Vienna Gambit (3. f4). 🤩
Now, the single good response to the Vienna Gambit is to enter the Vienna Game Main Line with (3… d5). And here, we can immediately make an educated guess about our opponent. The very fact that they don’t quickly play (3… d5) implies that they’re not familiar with the Vienna Gambit. Which means that even if they find the correct response and enter the Main Line, they won’t know how to play it. The Main Line is relatively complicated.
My opponent found the Main Line, but then immediately blundered the next move, hanging their knight (3… d5 4. fxe5 dxe4??) by making a symmetric pawn exchange. Pretty much, the game was over on turn 5 as Black had lost a knight for no compensation. That said, Black was a good sport and played on, and I need to prove the advantage!
You’d notice that on turn 7 after (6… Qf5), with Black attacking my e4-knight, that I spent almost twenty seconds considering my next move. I was deciding between the more passive d3, which I thought was better from a development perspective, to the more threatening Bd3. As I was making a video (and didn’t want to have to reshoot because I did something dumb), I ended up playing the more passive move, but (7. Bd3) was the better move!
This sets up a potential trap, and it probably would have worked on my opponent. If they played (7… Be7) down this line (like they did in the real game), then (8. Nd6+) with check is a devastating blow, as the knight’s leap forward reveals an attack on Black’s queen with my d3-bishop! I saw this but chickened out! 😅
Nonetheless, the basic strategy of the Vienna Gambit bore fruit, which is rapid development and then a powerful attack on Black’s kingside in the early middlegame. At the end of turn 19, I had a forced checkmate-in-five moves, though I didn’t see the sequence until analysis (see the PGN and board below).
Nonetheless, the tactically logical deflection of Black’s queen’s defence of their f8-rook proved efficient, revealing a much easier to find checkmate-in-two moves. Good game, GG!
Game: https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/wUCVMfbUa
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