If you tried this as black, comment below and let me know the result!

"As long as you don't get checkmated, you gonna win the game." Chess Vibes 2021 9:14

I had black three times in one day OTB. 3 wins against this. I've found that once you've survived until move 8 or 9, the players who tried this as white are totally flabbergasted realizing it didn't work and start to fall apart. Thanks, man. Chess (good) vibes!

“If you don’t get checkmated you’re going to win the game”. Love that.

So awesome! No one talks about this as black! I'm gonna try it. At the very least it is practice with defending, which I think a lot of puzzles and trainers don't prepare you for. But actually a lot of the lines are very logical as you point out. If you remember the ideas, you will probably be able to rediscover the right moves even if you didn't memorize them perfectly.

Good video but I'm not playing that. I like king safety.

What a great video. Today I finally was able to apply the lines in real game and have got 99.2 score. An opponent hanged his queen though but it's his problem ) Really appreciate your effort Nelson

Very helpful! The mousetrap illustration made me laugh too :)

Honestly really great way of presenting. Love how when you went back to certain positions you would recap the options we had in the position and the right move for the line you just covered before moving on to another line. Really helped to remind me of the position and the options available and our responses before learning the next line.

Really love seeing a full analysis of an opening like this. Great stuff.

I got an ad for liver health 😂

Dude your channel is a GEM.

I love when new videos appear saying '100% win rate by doing this' or '90% win rate just by doing this' and you or someone else make a video and show how to beat them :)

Hey Nelson, I remember watching this video when I was trying to wrap my head around the Fried Liver and it helped me a lot. I've just gone and made an even deeper video (an hour long one) on this subject following as many move 9 variations white could make in the Fried Liver and how it could be countered by Black as well as many mistakes that could be made as the position gets more complicated. I also found one of the most ridiculous engine lines I've ever seen with three brilliant moves involving sacrifices. It's a really fun opening and I try and play it often especially with Black.

This was a great walk through. I play fried liver as white AND black cause at my ELO rating of 1200... ...not many people know the lines all the way through so i come out ahead either way. The plan is to get my rating to go up as high as it can before everyone else catches onto the full lines.

bro thank you seriously no one gave this kind of content for free keep it up bro u will get a lot of success

Thank you for the depth!

This is the most underrated video

Great video! Before watching this I won a game with black going into the a3 line and after Nxd5 I tried walking out of the diagonal with Kd7 instead of playing Qh4. I ended up winning, analyzed the game after and learned that my defence was wrong, and that only Qh4 saves the game. I got lucky. My opponent resigned a few moves later because he failed to punish my mistake and his attack dissipated. I was just up a rook, lol. I found your video looking for ways to defend against the fried liver. I think the two knights defence is great because if they don’t go into the fried liver, then black has a really comfortable game. And if you study navigating the mine field, you’ll have decent chances to stave off the attack. Most players will not be prepared beyond the first couple of intuitive moves. I’m struggling to understand which bishop to block when inevitably retreating my king. Sometimes you need the light-squared bishop, sometimes the dark-squared bishop. I’m relatively low rated though. Maybe I need more practice.

I love it when I'm black and white goes for the Fried Liver Attack. Not so I can play these lines, but so I can play the Traxler Counterattack.

Such detailed prep🔥👍👍

I don’t know whether it’s more fun to refute the Fried Liver with this, or just play a Traxler CounterAttack

I just really enjoy your videos! Your channel is just blowing me away with really awesome content! Thank you!

Very good video!! Love the mouse trap illustrations hahaha too funny!

thanks for this video....nicely in depth and helpful....will apply this next time someone plays the fried liver attack

It's worth learning every line against this. Over half your games as Black will probably involve some form of Bc4 & Ng5 shenanigans all the way up to 1500 or higher. I'm teaching a friend every way to play around it as they approach the 800 level because of how prominent it is. Thanks for the video. 😀👍

@13:27 When black king moves to e7, queen can move to f7 check and protect white bishop. Then take the rook with knight. Sorry if I missed something.

I played the Two Knights in my 2nd tournament game many years ago and suffered a Fried Liver and received a double checkmate lol. Id much rather play 5...Na5 or 5...Nd4

Thanks for the clear instruction. You are a natural teacher of the game. Can you give us some background on how these various names came into being? Fried liver attack for instance😂

I know this video is a little old but I'm happy to say 2 days after i saw this video I went up against this as black and completely won my game glad to learn and get better from watching you

Commenting again amazing video. Can you do one playing as black against the danish gambit accepted? It’s a similar idea if there’s a way to maintain your advantage with the 2 pt lead

5:05 I think the best move for white here is Bb3

Love this man!

excellent explanation.

Thanks for this. I've tried it a fee times now and at my level (round 1200) it seems that white doesn't know what to do if black survives till move 12 or so, and starts to make mistakes

I had to subscribe after seeing your this video. Good channel Good presentation with great content.

Great stuff

Awesome video. I am glad to know a way out.

Just played it today... mind boggling game. I had to give up the queen for two pieces in the middle of the game. I had a rook, a knight and a bishop for the queen. It was great for the win and then I blundered the bishop in the end to end the game in a draw.

There's also a counter attack on the fried liver called the "Traxler attack or defense..."

The move i like the most in fried liver is bishop c5 playing the traxler counter attack because most people dont know how to deal with that

I played the Traxler into the Fried Liver. I was winning until l made a blunder by missing a check. Then lost hard

Thank you bro

17:38 Bishop should be moved to c8 as the pawn is pinned. You should check mate king with queen

11:45 and 13:27 What if white play queen F7?It checks the king , protect both the knight and the bishop, black king has to move while white can take the rook with his knight and still being able to retreat the knight.

After 8)...Nb4 9)Bb3 line is not discussed. I won lot of games in this opening till 1990 influenced by P. Morphy. During those years there were no engines available in town limits. We had to depend on books. Max. Eue's How to play King Pawn openings discusses the variation of King moving towards queen's side. But when I played it with IM Ravi Hegde he went for the option Na5 attacking the bishop & I lost 10 games.

Thanks for this tutorial,it saved me a Game.

Lol, the comparison at the intro was on point

Thanks for that great vid on what's becoming a much more common white attack. Now that's 2 types of fried liver I love . Great vid very informative and entertaining how about if black puts the fried liver on white has it a name and if not can I call it the fried Kidney attack.

Alright, another iconoclast! Several years ago, I got into an on-line debate with a chess coach who was telling all his followers (presumably mostly scholastic players) that the Fried Liver Attack was awesome and would win tons of games for them. I decide to play Devil's Advocate and suggested some lines for Black to show the variation was at best unclear - a kid who did his homework could turn the tables by surviving the attack and retaining the extra piece. After a few more exchanges, the guy called me an idiot and banned me from his blog. With that said, the move 6. d4 instead of 6. Nxf7 is legitimately dangerous. IMO, 6. d4 rather than the knight sac is a better reason to avoid this variation. Heck, if you can provide some strong lines against 6. d4, I may start playing it myself.

But what do you do when the opponent plays King to d1 first, before attacking your Knight on b4?

At 12:30 there is a queen check the king if white plays the queen before the night takes rock which is queen f7 check which is bad with all due respect

11:39 , after Nxc7, white could move the bishop to e6, that would save the bishop and attack the king.

Whenever I saw the fried liver I saw Nf6 followed by Bc5 for black. In this situation if black Nxf7 then Bxf3+ and gains a winning position over the next several moves

I usually play 5...b5 as black to avoid the Fried Liver, and have found most people do not know how to respond to that move and it takes them out of their preparation. But I like your analysis and will have to look at it again to see if I want to try it. The most difficult thing with the Fried Liver as black is remembering all the best moves, because like you said, one wrong move for black and it is over.

Mousehunt! That's one of my favorite movies ever!

You say the two moves White can choose from for move 9 are 9. a3 and 9. O-O, but I always thought the best move for White in this position was actually 9. Qe4, defending c2 and pinning the e5 pawn, in preparation for d4 (which both attacks the now pinned e5 pawn and opens a line for the c1 bishop...). It would be nice to see how (or even whether!) Black can defend against _that_.

UNEXPLORED ATTACK - At 23:16 when the white queen is at f5 and the black king is at d6 and it has only c5 and e7 squares that are not under check then a check by the white knight when it moves to b5 has not been explored by you as that is a forcing move instead of the line you pursued from this point by moving the white queen from f5 to f7. Or let's go to 23:21 with white queen at f7 and the white knight gives a check through b5 then the black king would have no option but be forced to move to c5 and putting it at the most forward point of the black line.

The problem is that white has a stronger move than 6.Nxf7. 6.d4 ! and black suffers just as much, but is not up a piece.

Great more content like that

I've always just done the anti fried liver to avoid it, but it would be interesting to go into the lines and learn to step through the minefield. I'm rated about 1050 and I think I can probably get to 1300 just on memorizing these lines given how often this is played at my rating level.

I'm just a casual player so correct me here, but @11:26 if you can get the first bishop, the only way for white to stop you from taking both bishops and the other rook would be to sac their queen... That would be crushing

2:57 I play Nb4 here

Yoooo, just played a fried liver game and won. The difficult thing is everyone never plays these lines. They just play the moves that start it. After Nc3 you have no idea what they are going to play. I’ve had a lot games where I had to review afterwards with the engine to discover the best move. I’ve slowly been getting a better idea of the moves I can play in certain positions and it finally payed off. I just played solid defense and then eventually my opponent started running low on time bc it took him forever to decide each move. Eventually he just blundered away the game once he got under 20 seconds.

6:53 "And I went very deep with the chess engine" 😏

One word : *TRAXLER*

@18:05 What about Bxd5 Nxd5 c4? Doesn’t white have the initiative?

The a3 ...Nxc3 a/bxN ...Nd5 motif is very common.

Lol I was surprised to see that my usual response to Nb4 as white isn't even analised! I play Qe4 defending c2 and threatening a3 the next move (and I think the position is unpleasant for black from there, they have to save both knights and you can continue attacking with stuff like d4/castle/rook e1). Is this bad? I guess not being a good line explains why my opponents usually seem confused by it.

11:48 and if after Kd7 white plays Qf7+?you can block withQueen but still after recap rook is gone, am I wrong?

13:29 - What happens if white queen goes to c2, instead of taking the rook or bishop?

Thanks for that, now I know it's a free knight. I'm always be thinking hard when this happens in low ellows

It's also important to know that if white goes 8.0-0 black should go 8...b5 because then if 9.Bxb5 you can go 9...Nd4. If he retreats with 9.Bb3, you can also go 9...Nd4. The best try is 9.Bd3 and then 9...Nd4 10.Qe4 c6 11.c3 Nf6, and now if 12.Qe1, there's 12...Nf3+! 13.gxf3 Qxd3. A nice little trap.

Fried liver:haha so powerful so good Traxler:HAHA shutdown go brrr

Do you have a video about the line 4.... Bc5 and 6..... B:f2?

Would be awesome if you post the pgn for videos like this

Reminds me of trying to defend a 1 - 0 lead in a football game against Brazil.

Engine is saying something else, kd1 early or qf5 and white is up +2

What if you move the bishop to b3 or a2?

No one: Nelson: Objective Survive

Very first game after watching this got the Italian as black, then won with this main line 😂

Can you make one video against danish gambit...accepted line.

9:25 Ne4 and Qf7 mate

6:33 The king isn't defending the knight while it's being attacked by other pieces.

4:30 New objective:Survive

"Then he sacrificed.... THE KING!!!"

If anyone can answer would white pawn to g4 be a response to black attacking the bishop?

Or just do the Traxler gambit. But Its great info for those of us who like to play fried liver as white.

Coming here after I lost to this in 9 moves. Hope to end this threat once and for all.

I tried it and recommend it🤣 it's so intense'❤

Him: a bunch of lines and stuff Me: traxler and hope for the best

HI, I recently got to 1300 how big of a diffrence in skill is someone in my rank verses say someone of your rank?

Bro analyzed the entire fried liver💀

Just won a classical game with the Fried Liver as black.

0:00 Wow, I wish I've seen this video earlier. I had this exact position in a simul against 2600+ GM and blew it :( I made it to 40 move mark, but then the GM had mate in 2 so I resigned. Could've played it much better

Taxlor counter gambit is the way to go

At 5:26, the computer recommends Bb3. What should be the next line?

At 3:22 what if white QF3 instead of capturing a pawn with the knight.1 piece down for black or mate.

After Nb4, stockfish plays Kd1... what do I do here? I've been playing against a 3200 engine for an hour... I can't find a path that doesn't lead to M20 for white

After Ng5, is it possible to block the bishop with Nd5?