Two Knightrs Attack/Fried Liver Attack

Above, is the main line of this attack which I have recently been looking into and I really do like. I will now insert what happens if they do not play Nxd5 to fall into the attack and play the more defensive line.

I was just wondering what comments pople had about it and if the majority of people would recommend it for me or not...

In the line you have given, Bogolyubov's variation of the Two Knights (8. Qf3) is an interesting line for White. Not a great line but an interesting one. I use to think it was a move to confuse Black more than anything else. When I played the Two Knights, as White or Black, as White I usually chose the main line 8. Be2. Black's 8. ... Bb7 is considered weak. Much better is 8. ... Rb8, although there are other choices. When playing Black I considered 8. ... cxb5 giving up the exchange, but I was usually too chicken to play it! Besides that's not a great line either.

Regards

Mike 

ok thank you

If you want to have a good overview of the two knights defence (wether if they take on d5 or not) I encourage you to read and study Tim Harding's article on chesscafe.com. You can find them here :

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz58.pdf

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz59.pdf

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz60.pdf

and http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kibitz114.pdf

If they capture on d5, I encourage you not to sacrifice your knight immediately, but rather to play d4 first. Again, for a discussion of this point, see Harding's articles.

Hope it will help you.

Yes I have studied that line but the problem is that if they then play Bb4+ then when you put the pawn on c3 there is no place for your knight to atack the d5 square in a few moves time.

Hi there,

What a coincidence! I did started a tournament for my group (chess friend for friends) also based on the Italian game, 2 knights defence. The main difference is that black do play 5...Bc5 (Traxler counterattack) with a very sharp continuation for both sides.

Feel free to join.

The dutch fella got it mate it is technicliy sound to ingore the threat and bishop c5 puts him a tempo up

If Bc5 then Bxf7x winning a pawn and then e7 followed by Bd5 and i prefer White a lot.