Playing black against the Vienna Gambit

A possibility

what happens if you take

vienna is one of the few gambits were taking is plain bad. ( and i dont mean suboptimal like queen gambit accepted but plain bad).

white just pushes e4-e5 (qe7, qe2) , and after ng8, nf3, followed by d4. white gets the full center and more space.

if you know your opponent likes vienna gambit, you can play d5 and study the lines but yoou will likely just equalize if he knows his line. i suggest you get creative.

another try is to to see if you can trick black into more kings gambit position. the vienna gambit is in many ways an easy king's gambit because the f6 knight blocks queen check possibilities, so dare black to play f4 early.

Thanks, that was really helpful.

I believe f4 after Nc6 is the max Lange, which is usually not played after Vienna players @6

The Anderssen Defence works fine, right? (I'm a Vienna player and barely see it as black)

This is me playing as black and I used "Vienna gambit REVERSE"!!! Credits go to @Gothamchess.

bro you should’ve just taken on d4, people are making up some weird openings nowadays