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Vienna Game:Vienna Gambit

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4

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Black to move

Legal moves
28
Games in the next 4 moves
840,145
Different positions among them
283,917
Named lines from here
10

See it on the mapOn the opening map

It is reached after 5 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4. It is a line of the Vienna Game.

Black is to move and has 28 legal moves. Over the next four moves — two for each side — the game can branch into 840,145 different games. Those games reach 283,917 different positions: most positions can be reached in more than one way, 3 on average.

The Lichess opening list names 10 further lines after this position, such as Main Line (3... d5).

The same moves can be played in 12 different legal orders that all reach this position. For example 1. Nc3 e5 2. e4 Nf6 3. f4, which starts as the Van Geet Opening.

Map of every game of the next four moves after the Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit
Every game of the next four moves from this position, as the map draws it. Each ring is one more move; the outer ring holds all 840,145 games.

Move by move

  1. 1. e4King's Pawn Game
  2. 1... e5King's Pawn Game
  3. 2. Nc3Vienna Game
  4. 2... Nf6Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation
  5. 3. f4Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit

Named lines from here

Related openings

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