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Yesterday after a long clinic day, I played an inaccurate, but super fun game of the Vienna Main Line. So far at the beginner-intermediate level, I don’t get to play the Main Line very often. In fact, when I explored my games on chess.com, at the time of this video, only 3.5% of the time when I play the Vienna do we end up in the Main Line. Interesting! So I have to admit that I don’t have much theoretical knowledge of the position. With being tired, inaccuracies, mistakes and blunders on both sides led to this great match!

I was very lucky at the end when my opponent possibly miscounted, or perhaps thought they had a move with check and thus lost their rook. They spent only 11 seconds on that move. I’ve done this sort of error many times before and the insight perhaps is to be careful with getting tunnel vision and too fixed on a tactic and missing how the board has evolved. I hope you found this video interesting, and thanks for watching!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/game/live/39497934799

[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.02.24"]
[Round "?"]
[White "vitualis"]
[Black "AWO"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C29"]
[WhiteElo "1316"]
[BlackElo "1253"]
[TimeControl "1800"]
[EndTime "19:37:08 PST"]
[Termination "vitualis won by checkmate"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Nf3 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Nc6 7. d4 Bg4 8. h3 Bh5 9. Rb1 b6 10. Bb5 Qd7 11. O-O Be7 12. Qd3 Bg6 13. Qe2 O-O 14. Bg5 Bxg5 15. Nxg5 h6 16. Nf3 Qe6 17. Bxc6 Qxc6 18. Rbe1 Rfe8 19. Nh4 Be4 20. Qg4 Qxc3 21. Nf5 Bxf5 22. Qxf5 Rf8 23. e6 f6 24. e7 Rfe8 25. Qe6+ Kh8 26. Qxd5 Rab8 27. Re6 Qxc2 28. Rc6 Qd3 29. Rxc7 Qe3+ 30. Kh1 Rxe7 31. Rxe7 Qxe7 32. Qf3 Rd8 33. d5 Qe5 34. Rd1 Rxd5 35. Rxd5 Qa1+ 36. Kh2 Qxa2 37. Rd8+ Kh7 38. Qf5+ g6 39. Qd7+ Qf7 40. Qxf7# 1-0