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Today, I played a very fun and winning line in the Vienna Game. Around a couple of months ago, I posted a video describing a game where I played the “Wayward Queen”, that is Qh5, in the Vienna Game opening. This is available when the opponent with the black pieces responds to the Vienna Game, that is, e4 d5 Nc3, with the Anderssen Defense – developing their dark square bishop to c5. In this game, my opponent then played some natural and intuitive moves, but this leads to a loss of a piece and disaster.

The insight I have from this game is that the wayward queen is now my default response to the Anderssen Defense when I play the Vienna Game. It seems to be one of those lines where the cold hard logic of the computer thinks that white and black are fairly equal, but against humans, black seems to do badly. Nice!

I hope you found this game interesting, and thanks for watching!

Game on chess.com: https://www.chess.com/analysis/library/Cfi47yRaW

[Event "Rated Rapid game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/W06525Yx"]
[Date "2022.03.10"]
[Round "?"]
[White "vitualis"]
[Black "giadrosic"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2022.03.10"]
[UTCTime "05:35:28"]
[WhiteElo "1525"]
[BlackElo "1620"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+15"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-7"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Opening "Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 {C25 Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense} 3. Qh5 Nc6 4. Bc4 g6 5. Qf3 Nf6 6. Nge2 d6 7. d3 Bg4 8. Qg3 Qd7 9. f3 Nh5 10. Qxg4 Qxg4 11. fxg4 Nf6 12. h3 O-O-O 13. Bg5 Bf2+ 14. Kxf2 Nxe4+ 15. dxe4 Rdf8 16. Bf6 Rhg8 17. Kg3 h5 18. h4 Nb8 19. Rhf1 hxg4 20. Bg5 f5 21. Nd5 f4+ 22. Kxg4 Kd7 23. Nf6+ Rxf6 24. Bxg8 {Black resigns.} 1-0