![]() Nc6 5.Be7 (returning the pawn) is a quieter alternative, for example 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Nxe5 0-0 (7. (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. 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 win material immediately, since 4.Nxe4 brings 4.d5.Ĥ. ![]() Nxe4 This move defines the Frankenstein–Dracula Variation. Or the Alekhine's Defence: 1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5! etcģ. Bc4 Another common way of reaching the same position is 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 (Bishop's Opening) Nf6 3.Nc3. In 2019, Hikaru Nakamura played it in a rapid game in St. Alexei Shirov played it as Black in a simultaneous exhibition in Canada 2011. Vasyl Ivanchuk used it against Viswanathan Anand in Roquebrune in 1992 in a game that ended in a draw. Jacob Øst-Hansen deployed it against John Nunn in Teesside 1972. The line is rarely seen 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." It involves many complications, but with accurate play is viable for both sides. Or it can be reached by transposition from the Bishop's Opening: The Frankenstein–Dracula Variation is a chess opening for Black, usually considered a variation of the Vienna Game, beginning with the moves:
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