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The Vienna Game

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To this 7-book author, a high school chess coach and tournament chess player this book provides the best format for a chess-opening book I've ever seen. The games are clear examples of the opening lines and the book's layout makes the material easy to digest. This book will help you win more games as you turn games away from the heavily studied Lopez lines. You will learn about the positional lines of the Vienna as well as the fun-to-play Vienna Gambit 3. f4, which this book makes appear much safer than the King's Gambit. I am so impressed with this book that I'm looking for Lane's other books.

I like the Vienna because it helps me to win! There are fantastic attacking lines such as the wonderful sounding 'Frankenstein-Dracula Attack' and I am in a quieter mood I can play 1 e4 e5 Nc3 Nf6 3 g3 to play safe, positional chess. There are eight chapters and seventy-seven annotated games that help to understand the opening. The English master Gary Lane knows what he is talking about and I love the ways he shows 'tricks and traps' for people playing colors Black or White. There are lots of strong US players who have successfully used the opening such as Benjamin and Shabalov that is good news. The introduction offers a repertoire for players of different standards and styles. Thankfully, there is an excellent historical background, which makes a change from other publishers that I won't mention. It says on the back of the book that Lane has already written twelve books and judging by this effort I want more of the same thing.