Qf3 f5 David Bronstein once won a game with 7.f6!? 8.Nxc7+ Qxc7 9.Qxf6 b6 10.Qxh8 Bb7 11.Qxh7 0-0-0, but he has not found followers. Nc6 5.Be7 (returning the pawn) is a quieter alternative, for example 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Nxe5 0-0 8.0-0 Nxe5 9.Qxe5 Bf6 10.Qf4 Ne8 11.d4 c6 12.d5 however, White has a better game ( Larsen Nielsen-Muir, corr. (See Harding's 1998 column cited below.)ĥ. Bb3 Swedish grandmaster Ulf Andersson recommended 5.Qxe5+ Qe7 6.Qxe7+ Bxe7 7.Be2, claiming that White has some advantage. Instead, 6.d5 Nd4 led to very complicated play in Kis-Csato, Hungarian Team Championship 1993.ĥ. Also possible is 6.d5, when 6.g6 loses to 7.dxe6, as in Böök-Heidenheimo 1925. Nd6 This move is the only good response to White's dual threats against f7 and e5 4.Ng5 would be met by 5.d4 Ne6 6.dxe5 with some advantage. 4.Qh5 threatens Qxf7#, a threat that White continues to renew in this line.Ĥ. 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe4 is considered good for Black as long as he avoids 5.Nc6 (5.d5) 6.Qf3+ Kg8 7.Ng5! and White wins (7.Qxg5 8.Qd5#). Qh5 4.Nxe4 d5 is considered to give Black no problems. White cannot of course win material immediately, since 4.Nxe4 brings 4.d5.Ĥ. Nxe4 This is the move that defines the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation. Bc4 Another common way of reaching the same position is 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 (Bishop's Opening) Nf6 3.Nc3.ģ. Alexei Shirov had also played this in a simultaneous exhibition with black in Canada 2011. Ivanchuk used the opening against Viswanathan Anand in Roquebrune in 1992 in a game that ended as a draw. The line is seen extremely infrequently in top-level play. The variation was given its name by Tim Harding in his 1976 book on the Vienna Game, in which he said that the bloodthirstiness of the character of play was such that "a game between Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster would not seem out of place." The opening involves many complications however, with accurate play the opening is playable for both sides. The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation is a chess opening, usually considered a branch of the Vienna Game, but can also be reached from the Bishop's Opening.
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