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In the game I played this morning, I straight up hung a knight on move 7. Or, as I described in the an earlier video, an “involuntary gambit“! However, one of potential advantages I had was that the opponent was likely in unfamiliar territory as they had accepted the Vienna Gambit. This game shows how being ahead on development can sometimes make up for egregious loss of material.

One of the ideas of the Vienna Game with the early Nc3 on move 2 is that this knight is well placed to go to d5, then c7, forking the king and rook. On the analysis, I had an opportunity to exploit this much earlier in the game, but my opponent didn’t see this either and so, didn’t block this line of attack. When it finally came, a blundered tactic with their dark squared bishop gave me a winning position. What matters isn’t who blunders first, or even the most, but who blunders last!

I hope you enjoyed the video, and thanks for watching!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/35505501387

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.01.09"]
[Round "?"]
[White "vitualis"]
[Black "Alex4096"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "1167"]
[BlackElo "1177"]
[TimeControl "1800"]
[EndTime "14:29:36 PST"]
[Termination "vitualis won by resignation"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 exf4 4. e5 Ng8 5. Nf3 d6 6. d4 g5 7. Nxg5 Qxg5 8. Qe2 dxe5 9. Qxe5+ Qxe5+ 10. dxe5 f6 11. Bxf4 Bg7 12. exf6 Bxf6 13. O-O-O Nc6 14. Nd5 Be5 15. Bxe5 Nxe5 16. Nxc7+ Kf8 17. Nxa8 Bg4 18. Rd8+ Kg7 19. Nc7 1-0