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King's Pawn Game C20
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C29

Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit

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Overview

Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit belongs to the gambit family of chess openings (ECO C29, Open Games). It trades material for attacking chances — a classic trade-off that has fascinated players from the Romantic era to modern correspondence chess.

The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.

It is reached after 5 plies of play, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4.

The line refines Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.

It continues primarily into one named line, Main Line.

In total, the branch covers 10 sub-variations across all depths.

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ECO code: C29
Group: Open Games (C)
Plies: 5
Parent: Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation
Direct variations: 1
Total in subtree: 10

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Statistics from Lichess

4,261,520 games · White 55.5% / Draw 4.1% / Black 40.4%

Moves	Games	W / D / B
exf4	1,273,388
d5	1,122,469
d6	985,931
Nc6	511,594
Bb4	189,964
Bc5	113,520
Bd6	25,291
Nxe4	11,350

Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:11:19

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Variations (1)

C29 Main Line

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Variations (1)

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