The Venomous Vienna: Part 2
In yesterday’s video, “the Venomous Vienna”, we looked at a game where I successfully checkmated an opponent in 8 moves. That game started with the Max Lange variation of the Vienna game, with the opponent making an early queen move to f6, and then responded to knight to d5 with a critical blunder. Today, we are going to look at another game with the same system, where the opponent doesn’t make as calamitous a blunder, but nonetheless is critically damaged from their early moves. One of the learnings that I got when analysing these games is that for black, the early move queen f6 to set up a natural looking and seemingly powerful attack against white’s weak f-pawn doesn’t actually work. The advantage is almost entirely for white. It’s one of the aspects that makes the Vienna so venomous, so potentially tricky for black if they want to respond aggressively.
Original post on my blog: https://adventuresofachessnoob.com/2021/11/24/the-venomous-vienna-part-2/
