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Vienna Game

Moves

White scores

53.3%

Wins more
Loses moreEvenWins more

51.5% won3.6% drawn44.9% lost

Theory 49.6% · Stockfish +0.0

Every level and clock · 41M games

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Win rate by rating

White’s score gets better as the rating rises.

RatingScore against evenScoreWonGames
51.6%49.6%3.3M
53.1%51.4%4.5M
53.2%51.6%6.6M
53.2%51.5%8.2M
53.5%51.7%7.9M
53.7%51.7%5.8M
54.1%51.9%2.8M
54.8%52.3%1.2M
56.0%52.5%188K

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What does Black play next?

Black's most played reply is 2…⁠Nc6, the Max Lange Defense.

Is the Vienna Game good?

Yes, for White, across every level and clock.

Everyone53.3
Stockfish49.6

Stockfish at depth 22 · +0.0 for White

Floor 53.3 is the worst score you would still get, 90% confident.

Among the families

15th of 66 families White can choose

Where it wins · rating × clock

<100010001200140016001800200022002500+Every levelUltraBulletBulletBlitzRapidClassical
Best 59.3% · 2000–2199 classicalWorst 46.8% · under 1000 ultrabullet

Faint, hatched: few games, never the best or worst. –: too few to score. Tap a cell to set your level and clock.

Average game length

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More Vienna Game lines

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All 38 Vienna Game lines, ranked

38 variations · ranked by floor

Floor — the worst score you would still get, 90% confident.

1
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Meitner-Mieses Gambit396K games
70.1%Floor 69.9%
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Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Wurzburger Trap10K games
70.0%Floor 69.2%
3
Vienna Game: Hamppe-Muzio Gambit922 games
64.5%Floor 61.9%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit4.2M games
59.1%Floor 59.0%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Kaufmann Variation3.9K games
59.6%Floor 58.3%
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Pollock Gambit1.3K games
58.4%Floor 56.1%
Vienna Game: Philidor Countergambit8.8K games
55.9%Floor 55.1%
Vienna Game: Giraffe Attack41K games
55.4%Floor 55.0%
Vienna Game: Omaha Gambit920K games
54.8%Floor 54.7%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Paulsen Attack321K games
54.5%Floor 54.4%
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation621K games
54.5%Floor 54.4%
Vienna Game: Mieses Variation402K games
54.1%Floor 54.0%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Frankenstein-Dracula Variation3.8K games
54.6%Floor 53.3%
Vienna Game13M games
53.3%Floor 53.3%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation2.9M games
52.9%Floor 52.8%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Monster Declined11K games
53.5%Floor 52.8%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Reversed Spanish986K games
52.6%Floor 52.5%
Vienna Game: Zhuravlev Countergambit1.7K games
54.3%Floor 52.3%
Vienna Game: Max Lange Defense7.2M games
52.1%Floor 52.1%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Modern Variation44K games
52.4%Floor 52.0%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Three Knights Variation1.4M games
51.7%Floor 51.7%
Vienna Game: Anderssen Defense4.3M games
51.5%Floor 51.5%
Vienna Game: Mengarini Variation307K games
51.6%Floor 51.4%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Bronstein Gambit4.8K games
52.3%Floor 51.1%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Alekhine Variation3.2K games
52.3%Floor 50.9%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Breyer Variation18K games
51.4%Floor 50.8%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Steinitz Variation52K games
51.1%Floor 50.7%
Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation2.4M games
50.2%Floor 50.2%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Main Line618K games
49.7%Floor 49.6%
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Eifel Gambit108 games
57.3%Floor 49.5%
Vienna Game: Frankenstein-Dracula Variation455K games
49.4%Floor 49.3%
Vienna Game: Hamppe-Meitner Variation22K games
48.6%Floor 48.1%
Vienna Game: Mieses Variation, Erben Gambit4.0K games
48.9%Floor 47.6%
Vienna Game: Fyfe Gambit194K games
47.3%Floor 47.1%
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit, Bardeleben Variation50K games
46.7%Floor 46.3%
Vienna Game: Heyde Variation6.2K games
44.7%Floor 43.7%
Vienna Game: Paulsen Variation, Mariotti Gambit133 games
47.8%Floor 40.8%
Vienna Game: Hamppe-Muzio, Dubois Variation155 games
45.9%Floor 39.4%
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Methodology

Across every level and clock, the Vienna Game family scores 53.3% for White, from 41M rated Lichess games across 38 variations, and the low and high ends of its range both round to that same figure at this precision. Win rate, draw rate and loss rate come from games played September 2023 to August 2026.

How the figures are made
Whose games these are
41M rated games played on Lichess (2023-09 to 2026-08). The games are Lichess’s and free for anyone to use. What is ours is the reading of them. Last rebuilt September 2026.
Which games we count
  • Rated games only — nothing casual.
  • Both players within 200 rating points of each other. A mismatch tells you about the gap, not about the opening.
  • At least 2 moves played.
  • A game is filed under White’s rating.
Why every number comes with a range
A number off a few hundred games is a guess. The same number off millions is a fact. The range is what tells them apart, and it is what the lists rank on — so an opening cannot reach the top on a lucky run of forty games. The more games behind a figure, the narrower its range.
What the Floor and Edge at worst are
The Floor is the worst score you would still get, 90% confident: the low end of a figure’s range, not its average. Edge at worst is how far wins run ahead of losses, 90% confident, so above zero, that side wins more than it loses even on a bad day. Each is stated for the rating and clock shown, over the games that reached the position. They are on different scales: a score sits at 50 when the sides are level, an edge at zero.
How much we need before we say anything
An opening page needs 100 games. A figure on it needs 100 games at its rating and clock: short of that the answer reads a wider scope and says so, a table row shows only its count, and a map cell shows a dash. Under 1.0K games a figure is drawn faint, and never leads a list or counts as the best or worst place the line wins. The chaos and trap lists need 500 games overall and 250 games at one rating or clock.