Let's play the Vienna Opening.
Let's learn one of the most crushing openings for White: The Vienna. Start by pushing the king's pawn forward two squares to e4.
Let's continue the Vienna Opening.
Now develop the queen's knight to c3, which begins the Vienna Game.
Let's play the Vienna Gambit.
The Vienna Gambit is played after Black plays knight f6. Let's gambit our f pawn by pushing it 2 squares forward.
Black has taken our pawn - a huge mistake we will now exploit. Pushing our e pawn forward forces their knight back to its home square. If it goes anywhere else, it can be taken.
Black made a huge blunder! What's the best move here? Hint: We can take the knight with the queen.
Well done capitalizing on Black's blunder! You'll be surprised how often Black's reluctance to retreat the knight ends up losing them the piece altogether.
Black tried to be clever by pinning our e5 pawn against our king so we can't use it to take the knight. But this is losing for Black! Let's block the pin by moving our queen to e2.
Before we do anything else, we need to housekeep and take care of Black's threat of queen h4 check. Let's develop our knight to protect that square.
By trying to fight back in the center, Black has allowed us to commit a vicious attack. I almost feel bad playing it, but it must be done. Let's attack their queen with knight to d5.
Can you spot the royal fork? Hint: it's knight to c7.
Well that was fun! Enjoy the free ELO.
There's two great options here. We could play pawn takes d6 which opens a discovered check to the black king. But even more fun is sacrificing our knight onto c7. Let's try it out!
Black has accepted our sacrifice and lost the game. We can play pawn takes d6 now which discovers a check and wins the queen.
Finally, we take the queen with our pawn.
Wow. You actually need to be evil to play like this... well done.
Black is threatening to move their queen to h4 with check. This would be devastating, so let's develop our king's knight to f3 so it can guard the h4 square.
Let's push our pawn to d4 to take the center and prepare our bishop to recapture Black's f4 pawn.
Now we can recapture our gambited pawn with our bishop, developing it to f4. We regain material while improving our position.
We have 3 ways to recapture the e5 pawn, but capturing with our knight is the best. If we capture with our d4 pawn, it opens up a queen trade which helps black. If we take with the bishop, Black can take it for a knight, which also helps black.
The best way to capture the e5 knight is with our bishop. If we capture with our d4 pawn, it opens up a queen trade which helps black.
Well done! You have a huge lead in development and have recaptured all your material.
If Black plays knight c6, Black is essentially losing already! Let's take their pawn with fxe5.
Now we storm with our pawns to take the center and force their knights back! First, let's push the d pawn forward to d4.
Now we attack their other knight with our e pawn, once again forcing it back to its home square! Pawn to e5.
Now is a good time to develop our king's knight to f3.
Well done! We have a huge lead in development and have crippled the Black position. Even though the material is equal, chess engines think this position is so good for White that it's equivalent to being up 1 or 2 pawns!