The Vienna Game – Dynamic, Flexible and Deeply Underestimated by Andrew Martin
The Vienna Game – Dynamic, Flexible and Deeply Underestimated by Andrew Martin
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The Vienna Game – Dynamic, Flexible and Deeply Underestimated by Andrew Martin
The Vienna Game is one of the most underrated openings in modern chess. While the Ruy Lopez and Italian dominate elite practice, the Vienna offers rich, creative play with far less theoretical burden and enormous practical value.
Free video sample: Introduction
Free video sample: 1: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 - Martin vs Adams
This course presents three main approaches:
f2–f4 systems – aggressive, King’s Gambit-style positions with added flexibility
Early Bc4 lines – solid setups with long-term pressure (including the wild Frankenstein–Dracula Variation)
g3 systems – positional control of d5 with attacking potential
The Vienna leads to complex, original middlegames and makes you extremely difficult to prepare for. IM Andrew Martin, FIDE Senior Trainer and long-time ChessBase author, guides you through this versatile and dangerous opening weapon.
- Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
- Available as download or on DVD
- Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
- Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
- Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
- Sample games as a ChessBase database.
- New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!
- Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
- Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
- Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
- Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
- Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
- Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.
- The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
- Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
- Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
- Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
- Replay training
- LiveBook active
- All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
- Assisted Analysis
- Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)
Sample video
Contents
- Introduction
- Opening Illustrations
- Game 1: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 - Martin vs Adams
- Game 2: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 - Monpeurt vs Koch
- Game 3: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nc3 Na5 - Nakamura vs Nyzhnyk
- Game 4: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 d6 - Ponkratov vs Paravyan
- Game 5: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.d3 Bb4 - Firouzja vs Vidit
- Game 6: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 - Sek vs Koryakin
- Game 7: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nc3 Bb4 - Bortnyk vs Bartel
- Game 8: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 - Duboue vs Di Nicolantonio
- Systems with f4
- Introduction
- 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4
- Game 1: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3 - Lagarde vs Fressinet
- Game 2: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3 - Liu vs Zhang
- Game 3: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3 - Lin vs Bok
- Game 4: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.d3 - Lukez vs Hebden
- Game 5: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.d3 - Thorallson vs Thorallson
- Game 6: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 - Ponomariov vs Eljanov
- Game 7: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 - Beerdsen vs Sokolov
- Game 8: 3...d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Nf3 - Lamoureux vs Grivas
- Intro 2...Nc6 3.f4
- Game 9: 3...exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ - Carlsen vs Le
- Game 10: 3...exf4 4.d4 g5 - Carlsen vs Alonso
- Game 11: 3...exf4 4.Nf3 g5 - Vachier-Lagrave vs Nakamura
- Overview of an early f4
- The traditional Bc4 & d3
- 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 d6
- Intro
- Game 1: 5.f4 Nc6 - Mieses vs Janowski
- Game 2: 5.f4 Nc6 - Conquest vs Thorfinnsson
- Game 3: 5.f4 Nc6 - Grigoryan vs Alvarez
- Game 4: 3...Nc6 4.d3 Na5 - Nihal vs Sindarov
- Game 5: 3...Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 - Aravindh vs Suleymanli
- Game 6: 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nc3 Bb4 - Aronian vs Lazavik
- Systems with g3
- 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3
- Introduction
- Game 1: 3...d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Bd6 - Mamedyarov vs Karjakin
- Game 2: 3...d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Bd6 - Short vs Nunnn
- Game 3: 3...Bc5 4.Bg2 0-0 5.Nge2 Nc6 - Korobov vs Dardha
- Game 4: 3...Bc5 4.Bg2 d6 5.h3 Nc6 6.d3 0-0 - Nakamura vs Vifleemskaia
- 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3
- Game 5: 3...Bc5 4.Bg2 h5 - Finkel vs Tseitlin
- Game 6: 3...Nf6 4.Bg2 Bc5 5.d3 - Finkel vs Mikhalevski
- Game 7: 3...g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 - Almasi vs Vallejo Pons
- Game 8: 3...g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 - Adhiban vs Andreikin
- Outro
- Exercises
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- Exercise 9
- Exercise 10
- Exercise 11
- Exercise 12
- Practice Positions
- Systems with f4 1
- Systems with f4 2
- Systems with f4 3
- Systems with f4 4
- Systems with f4 5
- Systems with f4 6
- Systems with f4 7
- Systems with f4 8
- Systems with f4 9
- Systems with f4 10
- Systems with Bc4 & d3 1
- Systems with Bc4 & d3 2
- Systems with Bc4 & d3 3
- Systems with Bc4 & d3 4
- Systems with Bc4 & d3 5
- Systems with g3 1
- Systems with g3 2
- Systems with g3 3
- Systems with g3 4
- Practice Repertoire
- Systems with f4
- Systems with Bc4 & d3
- Systems with g3
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