Wu tang Sacrifice

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TheGenuineArticle

in the the wu tang manual, a sorta of autobio of the wu tang clan wu member and founder the rza

 

sheds light on a sacrifice move call the wu tang sacrifice and i was wondering if someone with any experience could show me in steps how this move is done?

 

"There's one move i used a lot. it was a sacrifice technique i used to use that won a lot of games in the early dates.

Basically, its when your knight hits the king's pawn. AT C2, shall we say. in the first five moves on the game. so the king's knight-say black knight, because im working from the black side-hits the king's pawn at F2. Usually, your oponent will kill your knight. He'll take it with his king-which is the only piece he can take with it.So thats a pretty serious loss early in the game:your knight. But it draw the king out of a castling position......" 

neb-c

Wu Tang is an opening?

TheGrobe

Sounds like the Fried Liver Attack:

http://www.chess.com/opening/eco/C57_Italian_Game_Two_Knights_Defense_Fried_Liver_Attack

sstteevveenn

What you describe is terrible.  You give up a piece for a pawn which just loses.  You also give away 3 tempi moving the knight and it will only take one extra move to castle by hand.  To go with this, the player with the extra piece will now have nice open f file for his rook. 

TheGrobe

White actually scores quite well with the Fried Liver (and the closely related Lolli) -- just be wary of the Traxler Counterattack.

I always play 4. Ng5 against the Two Knights Defense against the Italian.  I believe Black's best path to equality is the Polerio defense:

http://www.chess.com/opening/eco/C57_Italian_Game_Two_Knights_Defense_Polerio_Defense

There's a far better discussion of these lines than I'm able to provide here:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/the-fried-liver-attack-and-the-lolli-attack

sstteevveenn

sorry for the confusion if that's a response to me.  We posted at about the same time so I hadn't seen your post.  I believe the op was suggesting just sacrificing a knight on KB2 just for a pawn and castling rights.  That's what it sounded like to me. 

TheGrobe

Well, I'm not certain based on TheGenuineArticle's original post that it is in fact in reference to the Fried Liver Attack, but it sounded like it fit.  Like I said, I'll always play 4. Ng5 in that line, but I typically stop short of entering into the Fried Liver Attack myself.

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