However, in this position, the most obvious looking moves to do this don’t work, and result in +4 or +6 advantage to white, depending on when black opts to cut their losses. Today I’m sharing with you some juicy chess opening traps for Black against the Vienna Gambit which happens after the opening moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4. However, our strong bias to loss aversion means that many players will attempt to keep the knight in play, and potentially recapture the pawn for material balance.

When the opponent responds to the Vienna Gambit with Nc6, it’s automatically +2 for white as the least worse line for black at this point is losing a pawn, and losing tempo with their knight being forced to undevelop. This continues in a Muzio Gambit-style, except white has a few extra moves and black must play extremely precisely to avoid getting crushed. One of the most common responses is Nc6 and I recently made an entire video on why you shouldn’t play this move! Today, I played an opponent much stronger than me who played this line, and their intuitive and natural moves in the opening demonstrate why the Vienna Gambit is so powerful. One of my favorite openings as white is the Vienna gambit, and one of the worst moves black can make is to accept it. I’ve described a number of times that few people decline the gambit with the only objectively good move, d5, which enters the Vienna Game Main Line. As I’ve gone up in rating to the 1300s, I’ve noticed that relatively fewer opponents accept the gambit, but try to decline it. The e-pawn is taboo, but several other moves seem fine, but when preparing you really shouldnt rely too much on your. The Vienna Gambit is simply a very fun opening to play. Queens Gambit Accepted 6.0-0 a6 7.Nc3 b5 8.Be2 D27 The critical theoretical position in Cheparinov, I - Yu Yangyi arises after 13.e4, but before that various transpositions (even from a Semi-Slav, for example) were possible.

Vienna gambit moves