Play the Giraffe Attack (Vienna Game) | Complete Guide for Beginners! 🦒♟️

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Happy New Year everybody and welcome to 2024! I'm still on some annual leave and I thought that a great way to start the year is to review and make a video on one of my favourite openings in all of chess, the fabulous Giraffe Attack 🦒! The Giraffe Attack suits me perfectly - it's a bit silly and whimsical, it's quite uncommon, and it has trappy attacking lines that can result in very quick wins at the beginner-intermediate level!

This article and video was somewhat inspired by a very recent game where I won in SIX moves (Game 1) and this reminded me of a previous one where I won in FIVE (Game 2)! There are a bunch of tricks, tactical ideas, and traps in the Giraffe Attack and hopefully, this complete guide will cover them succinctly!

The Giraffe Attack starts in one of the less common responses by Black to the Vienna Game - Anderssen Defense (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Qg4). It is so named by Eric Schiller in his compendium, "Unorthodox Chess Openings" as White, "is sticking his neck out". How so? The logic is that White shouldn't move the queen to g4 with an attack on the g7 square unless the queen can actually capture the g-pawn. She can't (immediately) as the (only) correct response by Black which doesn't defend the g-pawn (3... Nf6) results in a losing disaster if White tries!

Luckily at the beginner-intermediate level, this is not a common response by Black, only 14%. In most of the other responses, so 6 out of 7 times, we have a good chance of playing a trap that gives a major advantage. Even in the 3... Nf6 line, there is still good chances of capturing an advantage in the opening!

00:00 Beginner
00:53 Quick Win Games x 2!
04:36 Giraffe Attack Analysis
07:13 #1 Black plays 3... Nf6
12:11 #2 Black plays 3... Qf6
15:05 #3 Black plays 3... g6
20:37 #4 Black other responses

[chessmansjourney]

Happy new year!!🙏

Nice videos man, i have a question. Why did you stop with ‘over the board games’? I started watching your videos because of your chessnut pro and over the board games. Doing these videos with your chessnut pro or other over the boards would be so much nicer,
I only see these digital games all the time on all the chess channels.

Thanks for all the chess content and i hope to see more over the board games again. 🙏

[mauriceernst]

What is the name of the background music?