Vienna Frankenstein Dracula Variation

An interesting alternative, after 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6, for anyone like me that may want to avoid the possibility of Frankenstein-Dracula, is 3 g3, called the Paulsen Variation, which is discussed in detail here: http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/glek-four-knights-and-paulsen-vienna.html

I may use this as White if I get 2...NF6 and use my more-typical try-to-get-f4-in Vienna variations for 2...Nc3 and some other moves.

Of course, I'm not recommending it now but will spend some time looking at what it leads to.

Tamburro does recommend it in Openings for Amateurs (thanks kindaspongey for pointing this book out in another thread). Four of the seven pages Tamburro spends on it are visible in the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon (once inside, click on "surprise me" then go forward or back to pp. 233-6 - sometimes requiring a few clicks to get it change sections):

https://www.amazon.com/Openings-Amateurs-Pete-Tamburro/dp/1936277506/

This is what I play against it: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Qf3+ Ke8 6.Qxd5

4. Bxf7+ is bad,. It seems attractive at a certain level because you stop Black castling and can get the pawn and the piece back but Black has the Bishop pair, 2 central pawns, etc... and a slight advantage right out of the opening... however in this particular line Black has Nf6 too.

I also like to go with this line.

This is a beautiful game. Nice post. Thanks.

play vienna qgd its better thanks i tried it very solid

This is the only occurence in a World Championship match

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013151

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