Black's best reply is 2.e5 transposing to back to the vienna game main lines. Aside from what I said in #1 you can play 2. It's somewhat unusual meaning most black players won't as prepared as they should be. The Vienna gambit with an early f4 is also surprisingly sound. You can play the standard Frankenstein–Dracula Variation or you can transpose to a four knights or you can play something like the Bishop's opening or you can look to transpose into a king's gambit or you can play a very system-like approach with Bc4, d3, f4, Nf3 etc. There are a lot of ways to play the Vienna. It cuts off a lot of black responses like the Petrov, Philidor, Latvian etc. There's only a few openings that can even try to claim a small advantage nowadays (Ruy, Queen's gambit) Objectively it's probably equal but that's true of nearly every opening. ![]() The Vienna is one of the better openings below international level.
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