The Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Mariotti Gambit is a chess opening classified under ECO code C25. It is reached after the moves 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 h5 5. Nf3 h4: 10 moves in, with White to play.
It belongs to the Vienna Game family — one of many ways the line can branch. Understanding the parent system’s plans is the fastest way to play this variation well.
Club players rarely lose the Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Mariotti Gambit in the opening itself. They lose it a few moves later, when the plan behind the moves runs out: that is what reading your own games in this line shows you.
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