About this opening
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Frankenstein-Dracula Variation is an opening in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings,
classified under code C27. ECO group C (C00–C99)
covers open games (1.e4 e5) and the French Defence, including the Ruy Lopez, Italian, Scotch and King's Gambit. This particular variation is reached
after 20 half-moves from the
starting position, with the move sequence 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. Nb5 g6 7. Qf3 f5 8. Qd5 Qe7 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 b6.
It belongs to the Vienna Game family.
Within that family this is a level-2 branch (the Stanley Variation → Frankenstein-Dracula Variation line). The immediate parent line is Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, transitioned via 10…b6.
The opening sequence in prose form: 1.e4 e5, 2.Nc3 Nf6, 3.Bc4 Nxe4, 4.Qh5 Nd6, 5.Bb3 Nc6, 6.Nb5 g6. From this position the encyclopaedia records no further canonical continuations — practical play branches into unnamed transpositions or returns to the parent line for alternative ideas.
Use the interactive board above to walk through the moves position-by-position. Click any move in the navigation to step backwards, or use the keyboard arrow keys. For statistical data — how often master-level players have reached this position, White's win-rate, draw frequency, Black's score — see the panel in the right column.
Caissly's coverage of C27 extends through every named sub-variation in this line and across all four locales (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian). Where editorial commentary exists for a specific variation it appears as the page body; otherwise the page presents the structural data, board, and statistics as shown here.