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- Chess Codex
- King's Pawn Game C20
- Vienna Game C25
- Falkbeer Variation C26
- Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit C29
- Main Line C29
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Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Paulsen Attack
Overview
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Paulsen Attack 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.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3, after 9 plies of opening development.
The line refines Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Main Line, which traces back to the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It continues primarily into one named line, Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Bardeleben Variation.
In total, the branch covers 2 sub-variations across all depths.
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- ECO code
- C29
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 9
- Direct variations
- 1
- Total in subtree
- 2
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Statistics from Lichess
416,136 games · White 50.3% / Draw 5.3% / Black 44.4%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Nxc3 | 234,030 | |
| Nc6 | 80,359 | |
| f5 | 61,574 | |
| Bc5 | 19,224 | |
| Qh4+ | 5,686 | |
| Be6 | 4,542 | |
| Be7 | 2,294 | |
| Ng5 | 2,289 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 02:02:19
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