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Vienna Game: Max Lange Defense trainer

Type a move and press Enter: e4, Nf3, O-O, or from and to squares like g1f3 (e7e8q to promote). The board is also played with the mouse.

Practise the Vienna Game: Max Lange Defense

The Max Lange Defense is 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6, one of Black's two usual replies to the Vienna Game; the other is 2...Nf6. Play Black's moves of the line from memory — 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 — and the trainer plays White's replies; "Play the other side" turns it around.

"Drill all" adds the 26 named lines that continue it, such as Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Three Knights Variation, Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense, Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Knight Variation, Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Meitner-Mieses Gambit, Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Hromádka Variation, Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Steinitz Gambit, Vienna Gambit, with Max Lange Defense: Pierce Gambit.

Read about the line, its statistics on Lichess and Stockfish's evaluation on the Vienna Game: Max Lange Defense page, or pick another opening in the opening trainer.