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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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