THE VIENNA GAME

Board Position
Originally called the Hamppe Opening after Swiss player Carl Hamppe, a government official in Vienna who first popularised it in the 1840s. White's idea is to play a form of King's Gambit (P-KB4) but to add first the development of the Queen's Knight (move 2 shown left).
White develops the QKt first so as to reserve the opportunity to play P-KB4 (in both the main line and the immediate variation of the Vienna Gambit) before starting a King's-side attack with pressure down the King's Bishop's file. The strategic idea is that P-K4, Kt-QB3, B-B4, Q3, KB4 should let him advance the KBP without risking the complications of the King's Gambit itself.
The risk in the Vienna is that, under no immediate attack, Black has time to counter in the centre with an eventual P-Q4 and thus secure full equality.
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Groups
see: 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 to: (Falkbeer): 2..Nf6 3 f4 d5 4 fxe5 Nxe4 5 Nf3 Be7 6 d4 0-0 7 Bd3 f5 8 exf6 Bxf6 9 0-0 Nc6 10 Nxe4 dxe4 11 Bxe4 Nxd4
(Max Lange): 2..Nc6 3 f4 exf4 4 Nf6 g5 5 Bc4 g4 6 0-0 gxf3 7 d4 d5 8 exd5 Bg4 9 Re1+ Ne7 10 gxf3 Bh3 11 Nxe4 Rg8+