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OpeningLanes Gary Lane Translate this page Play through and download the games from ChessCafe.com in the ChessBase Game Viewer. Scary Monsters It has a great name, but is the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation any good? Wolfgang Schmidt from Germany e-mailed to comment, "I'm a German chess player with an ELO around 2000. I'd like to come back to your offer of discussing the Vienna and ask you: What is the latest opinion on the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation?" This is a tricky question because the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation, which can arrive via the Vienna or Bishop's Opening, is notoriously complicated. I would advise anyone who chooses to play it for either side to test it on computers in correspondence play to see how it gets on. This advice would not go down well with one of the world's greatest attacking players Shirov whom is always up for a challenge. In the following simultaneous game the great man was taking on thirty-three players and strangely chose not to have white in every game, which tends to be the normal practice. Instead, he also got to play black on alternate boards, which can make it harder for the top player, as he soon found out. Michel Desjardins – Alexei Shirov RACC Simultaneous, Ottawa 2011 Vienna Game [C27] 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Bc4 It is worth pointing out that this line, although it is the Vienna, often occurs via the move-order 1 e4 e5 2 Bc4 Nf6 and now 3 Nc3 is played (3 d3 is also popular and I look at them both in my Batsford book The Bishop's Opening Explained). 3…Nxe4 |