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Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Reversed Spanish
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1.e4e52.Nc3Nf63.Bc4Bb4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Reversed Spanish820k games · White to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
47%385k53%
19%155k57%
12%100k53%
6.3%51k50%
6.1%50k54%
3.9%32k53%
2.5%20k54%
0.9%7.1k51%
0.8%7.0k52%
0.5%4.2k49%
Famous games in this line127 master games
Mamedyarov, S. (2801) – Giri, A. (2782)Ivanchuk, Vassily (2786) – Bu, Xiangzhi (2714)Dubov, Daniil (2693) – Keymer, Vincent (2733)Larsen, Bent (2625) – Smyslov, Vassily (2620)Lastin, Alexander (2643) – Chuprov, Dmitry (2571)Shanava, Konstantine (2589) – Safarli, Eltaj (2620)Chuprov, Dmitry (2554) – Tomashevsky, Evgeny (2654)Dubov, Daniil (2672) – Makhnev, Denis (2532)Heroes of this opening Ivanchuk, Vassily · Keymer, Vincent · Larsen, Bent · Lastin, Alexander
- Family
- Vienna Game
- Category
- Open
- First move
- 1.e4
- ECO
- C26
- Line
- 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Bb4
Classical
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Carl Hamppe worked out 2.Nc3 in 19th-century Vienna, and the line was called Hamppe's Game before it took the city's name in the 1890s. Steinitz, Tartakower and Spielmann all used it. The Vienna Gambit (3.f4) keeps every King's Gambit dream alive — same fire, one move of patience.
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