Vienna Game, Mieses Variation

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vyomkavishwar

While looking for openings with White, I came across the Vienna Game - and while usually people think of the Vienna Gambit (f4), I felt that the g3 variation(shown below), which does see some use (although little) at Master level, was a lot more promising - but there aren't any books about it. 

Is there something I'm missing (like a refutation, or a hidden trick for Black), or does this have potential (and should I try adding it to my repertoire in that case)?

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vyomkavishwar

My apologies, fiveofswords and undefeated_at_bullet, since I'm just a beginner at this opening. 

Fiveofswords, the reason I said it feels promising is because:
(a) Not many opponents will prepare for this side-variation of the Vienna

(b) White isn't making any "unsound" moves per se

(c) The manner in which White develops a fianchettoed bishop behind a central pawn feels a lot like the Tartakower Defense of the QGD, another opening I am learning now.  

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vyomkavishwar

Regardless of the nomenclature, this variant of the Vienna does seem quite nice, even though the ideas seem different from what I had initially thought. 

Could someone recommend me a good book or a player whose games I can follow to study this further?

Quasimorphy

Gary Lane's book "Vienna Game" has a small section on 3.g3. That book says Short, Smyslov, and Spassky have played it though I doubt they played it very often. Judging from the annotations in Lane's book, it looks like Glek has played it quite a bit. Actually, the Glek games arise from a transposition from the Four Knights Game.

I use 3.g3 in blitz fairly regularly. It seems like people aren't very familiar with it. They'll often play their King's bishop out then play d6 cutting off its retreat which allows me to trade my knight on c3 for it. I usually get a pretty good game after that.

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vyomkavishwar wrote:

Regardless of the nomenclature, this variant of the Vienna does seem quite nice, even though the ideas seem different from what I had initially thought. 

Could someone recommend me a good book or a player whose games I can follow to study this further?

If you go to http://www.365chess.com/eco/C26_Vienna_Paulsen-Mieses_variation you will find a link to over 20 games by Israeli GM Finkel.

Also there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Game#3.g3 referring to a game played with it by WC Smyslov which you can probably google for and find on chessgames.com

Quasimorphy

Here's another link that may be of some use to you.

http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/03/glek-four-knights-and-paulsen-vienna.html

kindaspongey
Quasimorphy wrote:

Gary Lane's book 'Vienna Game' has a small section on 3.g3. ...

I think that there is also something about it in the 2014 book, Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro.

http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html

dfgh123

soltis also recommends it in an ancient e4 repertoire pamphlet

DoctorStrange

I usually don't play this opening. Instead of Nc3 I play Nf3.Wink

shivank2005

genrealy should not play  e5 beacuse it has many traps in it

DoctorStrange

C5 is best.

shivank2005

it is little bit of ok

DoctorStrange

Anything is good, it just depends on the player.

shivank2005

e4 e5 bc4 has many tricks