A Frankenstein-Dracula Variation occurs as chess opening. Commonly considered the branch of the Vienna Game, it can also exist as reached from either a Bishop's Opening. These are seen super infrequently within top-level play.

A variation is caused per moves (given on this text within algebraic notation) 1.e4 e5 Two.NcThree Nf6 3.Bc4 (a move the correct sequence I.e4 e5 Two.Bc4 Nf6 Three.NcTroika is likewise conceivable) 3...NxeFour 4.Qh5 (Quaternion.NxeQuaternary d5 is considered to give Melanize there are no problems; 4.Qh5 threatens Qxf7#, the threat which White continues to renew therein line) Quaternary...Nd6 Five.Bb3 (Pentad.QxeFivesome+ is imaginable whenever White wants to keep away from complications) 5...Nc6 (Fin...Be7 giving a pawn occurs as calmer, maybe other healthy, guide) Hexad.Nb5 g6 Seven.Qf3 f5 Eight.Qd5 Qe7 (Eighter from decatur...Qf6 has likewise been tried) Ennead.Nxc7+ Kd8 10.Nxa8 & Black nearly universally continues Decade...b6, preparing Bb7 to trap a knight (watch diagram). Black has sacrificed a exchange (the rook for a knight) in the hope of an attack.

Reciprocally for his lesson, Black has a good pawn centre & his bishops is easily laid on the long diagonals. He may try to justify his sacrifice by avoiding the queen exchange & attempting to checkmate White. White may assure his king (typically by castling queen-side) & his queen (which for a time being is somewhat short of squares), hang on to onto his additional lesson & at length might last on the offence and attack the Nigrify king stuck in the centre of the board. Whether Black has sufficient compensation occurs as matter of opinion.

A variation was given its title by Tim Harding in his 1975 book on the Vienna Game in which he said that the bloodiness of this was such that "a game between Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster would not seem out of place."