Is the Fried Liver Attack REALLY a Good Opening?

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► Chapters 00:00 Fried Liver Attack Chess Opening 00:47 Most played moves leading to checkmate 01:37 Fried Liver Attack Opening Crash Course 04:54 Black plays 7...Ke6 to defend the d5-knight 07:05 Black plays 8...Nb4 to defend the d5-knight 09:07 Attacking the Black king in the center

[@FelixPerez-ts3lx]

Happy holidays GM Igor to you and yours, loving your super helpful analysis and upbeat positivity

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Happy holidays!

[@Zyrexia]

Hey Igor, I generally love your videos and learn a lot from it, but today I couldn't agree with you. What do you mean 'Fried Liver Attack' is the best name for a chess opening? the "Hyper Accelerated Dragon" is the best name for any chess opening. We can ignore the Lolli attack, or Hillbilly attack

[@ytmndman]

What about the Frankenstein-Dracula variation?

[@TheDedloc]

The end of the video sums up my experience with the fried liver lol my opponents always just know the counter.

[@bigdaddyslick4961]

Stockfish disagrees with you. According to stockfish there is no counter to the fried liver attack.

[@TheSpiritualCamp]

Excellent video ! Can you cover the Traxler next ? I know you already did a video on how to counter the Fried Liver, but it wasn't about the Traxler. Merry Christmas !

[@chaingangbiscuit]

The irony of me looking up a fried liver video and you dropping one today

[@rickmorrow993]

I have watched a lot of your videos and they have improved my game. I still have a long way to go. You are a really good chess teacher, Igor. I am going to check out (or checkmate?) your holiday deal.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Great to know! Good luck with your chess.

[@gregorykrantz7240]

Your Fried Liver attack worked for me first time. Thank you Igor. I'm a big fan.

[@christopherstokes9393]

Merry Christmas, Igor - and thanks for all the wonderful videos :) !

[@jackskura923]

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[@crashcondo]

Merry Christmas Igor Nation!

[@MrBrave6000HQ]

Merry Christmas brother. love your content

[@aribokengbnare9545]

What if after Qf3 they say Qf6

[@RichieShip]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays GM Igor

[@RvB_Fan_since_8]

Love playing this opening because even if they don’t play as you want, you can usually take the queen so early

[@lusterris9183]

Hope you have a good holiday season, watching throughout the last few months has greatly helped my gameplay!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Yes! Happy Holidays!

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[@mrbieler1]

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[@user-mx2vw9ep1w]

Finding out why the attack is called “Fried Liver” is more confusing than dealing with it as a beginner

[@usibistro]

Maybe the first grandmaster to come up with this attack was an alcoholic

[@joseluisdiazprieto4369]

⁠@@usibistroIn Firenze, they use a net to envelop and fry the little pieces of porc (fegatelli). The piece of meat being fried on the net is a good simil of black king under then fegatello atack. Fried liver is not a good translation of the original name Fegatello, that simply means “ little lever”.

[@Kadaitchi]

We call it "Fried Liver" because it's a really fast way to "cook" your opponent. As we know liver cooks in no time at all. Also back 100's of years ago it was damn near free so it was a very cheap popular source of protein that likely everybody ate at some point.

[@DotaMobaUnionRu]

Every time when I play two night defense as black I am begging white to go for the fried liver attack because I really want to have a chance to play traxler counterattack.

[@BabzTheGenie]

Before I came across your channel i used to learn from pretty chess girls on KZbin...Now I feel I'm learning at double the speed because your such a brilliant teacher! I'm grateful for your service thankyou bro 💪🏿🔥👊🏿

[@mrnelgin]

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[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

[@markmasaki1480]

Well, what a gift Igor. A Merry Christmas to you too.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Merry Christmas!

[@lawrieires6829]

Merry Christmas Igor!!🎄

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[@mytaichi5945]

Wow it was really a Xmas drop. Just found you I am a rookie and getting better with your help!!

[@Axiomatic75]

It's one of the best channels to improve your chess

[@MaxDooDat2]

This attack depends on Black making major blunders. Instead of moving knight to F6, Black simply moves pawn to D6. Then he can move the bishop out to E6 and stop the whole attack dead in its tracks. Plus, if the black knight not located on F6, then White can't move his knight to G5 until he has moved his Queen pawn forward to open up his bishop to protect G5. But if White does that, then Black can simply move his pawn to H6 to defend against it. But Igor didn't even mention any of this.

[@owoyemirichardadedamola2812]

Hmm.

[@EternalSilverDragon]

Igor didn't mention any of that because this video was about the fried liver attack, which requires this line to be played: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7. Black's move 3... Nf6 is not a blunder. It's a perfectly fine move, the only mistake in the leadup to the fried liver attack was immediately recapturing with 5... Nxd5. The line you're talking about playing instead is the Paris defence (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6), which is just a different way of defending against the Italian game opening. Maybe Igor will cover this in another video. It leads into another well-known opening trap.

[@tobias4411]

Are you aware of the fact that blacks most common responses to Lc4 is either Bc5 or Nf6. They are both textbook moves and totally fine. Best way to stop Fried liver is the Poleiro defence, that is played in GM level.

[@ericsmith8369]

Best to play the c6 knight to attack the bishop as black after d5

[@TruthSurge]

:37 that's where the attack fails. Opponent doesn't play knight, you can't play your knight because the queen will take.

[@Nomad-mf9pn]

Move your pawn open up bishop that will protect knight

[@Catspostytshorts]

I never knew how deadly the fried liver could be with all those lines where black loses, the fried liver is the heart of attacking chess

[@michaelmassaro4375]

It’s preventable though stopping it before it gets started a simple pawn push to prevent knight from entering

[@garyclarke9685]

But it's easily dealt with in two ways

[@Catspostytshorts]

Bro what since when did I comment on this video?? Must’ve forgot I’ve gotten way better it’s unusable at my level (as in winning easily) but thanks for reminding me of this comment didn’t think I’d ever call the fried liver the heart of attacking especially on a yt comment section lol

[@Alec_Tuttle]

in blitz this stops working around 600 650-700 and u start to see ppl playing traxler counter with bis 800 plus u see the knight attack counter witch is losing for white instantly if they don't play those usly see fried liver declined.

[@bigdaddyslick4961]

Stockfish plays the fried liver attack.

[@AndrewVM11]

Merry Christmas!

[@TruthSurge]

I must say that NONE of your openings work against Fritz! It's beginner mode seems like midrange to me. I literally tried several of your openings and they all get countered. That one where you give up two pawns in a row for the 2 bishops? you can't win the queen. Fritz comes back with a check via the bishop and only way is to bring your queen back to block and.... you lose your queen too. I believe there is no "use this opening all the time" idea to win more games. I think it depends upon what plans your opponent has and if they know that opening. But it's fun to dream that some of these openings would actually work. :)

[@hunterdillman3678]

If there was an opening that just automatically beat black then it wouldn’t be a fair game. You gotta remember the only difference between white and black is that white goes first that’s the only difference. That’s not enough of an advantage to just force a win on black you have to play

[@TruthSurge]

@@hunterdillman3678 Of course you have to play great moves against a decent player in order to win but this Fritz thing I've been playing against is brutal. Or else I absolutely suck at chess. I am still playing it on AMATEUR mode and I cannot win consistently. I think it's because I don't know all the opening "theory" so that I can position my self in the mid game for not getting murdered by one wrong move. I am older and I don't play with patience, either. I also don't know all these tricks and theories and x-rays and pins.... chess takes a strong MEMORY and I don't have the love for it enough to spend a few years learning it, I guess. Still, all these vids claiming these great openings and tricks... I know that's bs. The only trick is to be good at chess.

[@twoskies3226]

Merry Christmas!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

[@feliscorax]

Rumour has it this is Hannibal Lecter’s favourite opening.

[@Smol_PC]

Can you cover the opening: Mieses, Reversed Rat Variation

[@thomasadkins7159]

Igor, I think watching the video and studying for my next game counts as showing "skill"! Even Chess Grandmasters have coaches. Right?

[@scienceforall7214]

igor can you give us a video about the trompowsky

[@pickaxe4248]

You never provided the line where black plays Nd4 instead of Nxd5

[@TruthSurge]

Even if you WERE a beginner, why on Earth would you want to use some attack that is extremely well known and easy to punish? I would not use that approach ever and I consider myself a beginner. I would LIKE TO checkmate someone in 4 moves but reality....

[@MahirParekh]

Merry Christmas 🎁🎄

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[@minophilic6577]

I feel like he's a god from Heaven. I've improved Mr. Igor thanks to you. All of the attacking videos. I'm at a point I can sacrifice some material too, like a knight or a B.

[@anthonylesar7337]

"And prepare dreadful consequences for your chess opponents" - heh heh nice.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Playing h6 prevents the knight from setting up seems like a lot of my opponents tried the Bishop and knight combo attack I’ll stop it short in its tracks

[@tobias4411]

h6 så called Anti-Fried liver is a tempo down for black. If white know what to do black can quickly fall behind. h6 is not a good move just being scared of Fried liver.

[@donkeykong1234]

so what are the stats against 1400+ ?

[@garyclarke9685]

There is a simple solution. Don't move the kings pawn out two spaces just to one square.

[@David-bh1rn]

Ok baguette man

[@JohnHenryJones-u1r]

Completely destroyed someone today using this. I looked so smart but feel so dumb lol.

[@ConsciousExpression]

Somebody played this crap against me and won after the king rook fork exactly like you said.

[@eskiesirius]

How about Ka5?

[@fivescoop]

Awesome!

[@matrixmatrix6099]

Pawn in h6 stop the liver atack...

[@RonnocYrael]

5:00

[@JBbj-l2r]

Hi igor

[@TrumanShow744]

wow)so cool gift for christmas i saw how to punish scholars mate and won 3 or 4 games with line in your video But how to play black fried liver attack?

[@devthemasked4343]

check with engine

[@h7annn08]

play with dark square biship and g8 knight

[@devthemasked4343]

@@h7annn08 No the knight protects knight move was good then c6 then check with engine no bishops i think you need to move the king to a specific square depending on opponent's move

[@ahuman32478]

Learn the Traxler counter attack or the Ponziani-Steinetz gambit

[@devthemasked4343]

traxler is bad if opponent knows what to do

[@arpangupta76]

Do u know gotham chess

[@priyankbhatia496]

I hope you make a video on how to counter The fried liver counters So that white has more advantages because the fried liver has so many brutal counters that get white destroyed. Traxler counter gambit.

[@ChessErkhestushig]

Nice

[@ExtraditionLawFirm]

👍

[@Bilz_-fd1do]

First Pin :)

[@hata6290]

Yeah see Italian game is just lethal like there are so many traps because of that bishop always hitting the weak f pawn

[@Ceeewolf]

So trade it off on e6 with your inferior light square Bishop.

[@hata6290]

@@Ceeewolf alright

[@ranedelmatanod3010]

Third

[@nishusaif6085]

Second Pin.

[@awinbmx7418]

"we don't have to show some skill", because we watch this video so we become GM haha