Fried Liver Attack
Hey guys! @IAMDAGOAT123456789 here and today Im going to talk about the Fried Liver Attack....Hope you guys enjoy
OVERVIEW
The Fried Liver Attack is an opening that, when done correctly, can be costly for your opponent. The Fried Liver Attack is always played from white as the fact that white gets the first move allows white to possibly play this opening.......This opening is a very common opening especially for beginners and intermediate ( I consider myself an beginner btw 
) and is usually meant to at first some from the center
MOTIVES/ TYPES OF MOVES
- It involves a sacrifice
- Derives as a variation from the Italian Game (which we will talk about soon)
- And allows development to happen quickly and swiftly for white while black has some scattered pieces
Now lets move on to the Fries Liver Attack's moves
The first moves of the Fried Liver Attack is 1. E4 , E5 2. Nf3 , Nc6 3.Bc4
So once those moves have been played, from white's perspective this is how it looks like....And this position right here is called the Italian Game...The motive for the Italian game is to basically just get control over the center and have your minor pieces developed......and if you look a bit closer, you will se that the bishop is eyeing down the weak square on f7 which the black pawn is on......The Italian Game is arguably the MOST played opening from what I have seen....and a lot of players play it ranging from people just starting chess to even some grandmasters.....
Next, after you play the Italian game, black's most common response is 3.nf6....the motive on this move is to simply develop the knight as now black has both knights developed which is great for black as now black, just as much as white, is controlling the center....here is what it looks like now
As you can see, black is very much developed just as much as white and now both sides are playing great as both have 2/4 of their minor pieces controlling the center.....
Next, white now plays 4.Ng5 the purpose of this move is to attempt a fork ( if you don't know what a fork is I made a blog on that and will send the link below)....this is a very costly fork for black if black doesn't see this fork and will be losing tremendously ( and if you don't see a fork the next move its on Nf7 )....The only way to stop this fork or even letting white take the pawn on F7 at all is by pawn to D5 (for black)...this is the most common response for black and the best response as well....if you are confused by all the Moses and notation, ill show you the moves step-by-step
This was the Ng5 move, preparing for the fork on F7 on the queen and rook....
This was the D5 move that black played, blocking the bishop that was eying down the F7 pawn and also preventing the knight to fork the rook and queen, and lastly also developing a pawn, making this an overall great move for black......
Next, if white wants to continue the Fried Liver, they should play xd5 or pawn on e4 takes the pawn on D5.....This move does not really help (at least in my opinion) any side of the board but this move opens up for more scenarios for white later in this game, such as the Fried Liver Attack.....Then black SHOULD take the pawn back on d5 with their knight other wise black is going to be down a pawn very early in the game....here is the situation
The white pawn takes the black pawn to open up for future scenarios for white such as the Fried Liver Attack blog Im making, and then.....
Black takes back the pawn with their knight (At least they SHOULD) and make this position and now just like before both have a, weird, but equal position just like 2 moves ago....
After this, the knight that was on G5 makes this beautiful sacrifice Kxf7 the knight will go capture the pawn on F7......after this sacrifice, black SHOULD take the knight or he will lose his queen....The purpose of this really nice sacrifice is to get the king in the open which can lead to some checks and later to retake the pieces and eventually come to a nice checkmate.... and so here are the moves up to this point....1.e4, e5 2. Nf3, Nc6 3.Bc4 , Nf6 4.Ng5, d5 5. xd5, Nxd5 6. Nxf7, Kxf7 and so far we are here on the 6th move of this opening.....Here is this in a URL
and after.......
and so up until now, we are here!
And so after the king take, you play a very powerful move, Qf3+ or Queen to F3 which is a check....and you don't need to be a grandmaster to see that this is a very powerful check. This check is both a very aggressive move especially toward the enemy king and is also attacking the knight on d5..... and if the king retreats back or goes to E7, all you can do its take the knight with your bishop and you will be in a very, VERY great position unlike black who is sadly very underdeveloped.....here is what im talking about
And if you haven't noticed, you are also threatening scholars mate with Qf7#...so overall white is COMPLETELY winning.....But lets say that King goes to E6 to support that knight.....because then you cant take the knight other wise it would be a trade and you would be heavily losing since the king is protecting it......So instead what you do is play knight to c6 or Nc6.....if you play this move, you actually serve 2 purpose as one being that you are developing a knight to the center and also you add more pressure on the knight on d5 (and the black knight cannot take the other white knight on c6 other wise the bishop is checking the king making the knight pinned to the king by the bishop and if the knight were to move it would end up being illegal...I made a blog on pins which ill post the link under) so now this should end up being a very easy game as now white is completely winning and should a matter of minutes only before checkmate and lastly, here is the moves/url to all of this ;
Anyways, those are the moves about the Fried Liver Attack which is a variation of the Italian Game....Here are some facts/ trivia I thought you may enjoy reading
TRIVIA
- This opening is also know as the Fegatallo Attack
- Fegatello means "dead as a piece of liver"
- This variation was discovered in 1606 (pretty long ago huh?)
And so this is my 2nd blog about the FRIED LIVER ATTACK, a variation of the Italian Game.....I hoped you liked this, it took pretty long to write it, almost 2 hours, and if you think I forgot anything or should have added something, or should do something different next time, or just rlly liked it, plz leave a comment and btw, here is the link to my forks/pins/skewers blog;
https://www.chess.com/blog/IAMDAGOAT123456789/forks-and-pins-and-skewers
Thank you, @IAMDAGOAT123456789
