Is the vienna/ vienna gambit good for begineers

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Vergil_7

I have been playing vienna mostly and getting good results. Is there a even better opening or should i stick with this?

SamuelAjedrez95

The Vienna is an ok opening.

The Ruy Lopez is much better. It puts a lot more pressure on black.

pleewo

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Vienna is good.

Ruy Lopez is also good as Samuel stated and scotch is also very powerful as ultimate trash talker said. Italian is also good and Four knights is fine

SamuelAjedrez95

Ruy Lopez is the most beautiful and most effective.

It's also the most aggressive technically. Not aggressive in the same way as some Italian lines like the Evans Gambit. It has build up of tension on the kingside, and also it's more sound.

Whenever black slips up a little bit, white can strike. Also at lower levels, some people will play lesser variations instinctively, which are much easier to deal with. The Steinitz variation would be one example.

White just gets very nice positions here, breaking open the position and having a lead in space and development.

Youtuber LightSquares explains why the Ruy Lopez is a great opening for beginners.

It also has a lot of traps to fully exploit mistakes to devastating effect. Youtuber Eric Rosen explains.

He recommends this tricky sideline with 9. d4. This is not as good as it allows Bg4, but it's not so clear cut and white has a lot of tricks and traps.

I would recommend the main line with 9. h3.

This is the most ambitious and essentially the point of all of this strategy. This allows easentially 3 main branches with Na5 Chigorin, Nb8 Breyer and Bb7 Zaitsev.

Some people recommmend 6. d3, the Martinez variation, for beginners. This isn't quite as ambitious, but it's perfectly fine. White simplifies the game a lot by cutting back on a lot of these variations that black can play. This has also gained some popularity at top level.

pleewo

It’s hard to say an opening is much better at 900 level, but Ruy Lopez is definitely one of the best openings for all levels

Poweranony
I like the vienna, but not as the vienna gambit form. I like the mieses variation of the vienna (1. E4 e5 2. Nc3 nf6 3. G3) i find that it can lead to some dynamic positions for white, and it scores well for white even at master levels. You can also play g3 against max lange (known as the paulsen variation)