How to Counter Aggressive Chess Openings - Fried Liver Attack 

The Traxler counterattack is the most fun way to play this opening

Very nice analytical opening post, thanks 🎉🎉❤❤

fried liver was my favorite opening to play in high school

A) What most people do wrong when faced with a very aggressive opening is that they don't counter attack... For example... I make a pawn move and I attack your knight that is in the oppen... What is the 1st thing that comes to your mind? 1) Move the knight away? 2) Look for any pieces that the opponent has that you can ALSO attack with your own pawn? B) What most people also do wrong when faced with a very aggressive opening, is that they don't consider counter attacking moves like e4, d4 - e5 or d5... And until you really learn a lot about chess, you will not be able to defend very aggressive openings correctly by playing e4, d4 - e5 or d5, because for the most part - these moves will litterally fly over your head... C) Third reason why people are bad at defending against very aggressive openings when their elo is low, is because they don't "know" that knights can eat backwards... It sounds silly, until you see a low rated player being absolutely unable to find Nb4 after d5 for example... D) A 4th reason, is because most low rated players absolutely forget that they can take an e4, d4 or e5, d5 pawn with their knight... They always assume that these pawns are defended even though they are NOT in the opening... Meaning that their opponents might be undefending their pawns and they don't capitalize in those free pawns... Being low rated, is basically like being blind! E) 5th reason, low rated players are absolutely afraid of double pawns for some reason... Don't be afraid of them, take the free stuff when you see them... In my "C" example with d5 and then Nb4... You don't even need to see Nb4 sometimes, you can just do exd5! for example in the Sicilian... Yes you have an EXTRA pawn which is doubled... You don't like it? Give it away next moe... BUT TAKE THE FREE STUFF FIRST! F) They don't take stuff with their pawns, they take stuff with their knights instead - WHICH IS NOT OPTIMAL! Take stuff with your pawns! Lets see an example... Here we play black: 1) e4, e5 2) Nf3, Nc6 3) d4 (scary!) Many low rated players play Nxd4... But you should play exd4. Yes you took with the pawn, now you don't have an e pawn, who cares? And yes he is going to take your knight next move giving your doubled pawns, AGAIN nobody cares, its fine! And no! After he plays Nxd4 you should play Nf6... And NOT! He WONT play e5 because you TAKE the e5 pawn with your KNIGHT... Its funny but many low rated players won't see Nxe5... And I know because I used to be just like that... G) 6th reason, they don't see that they can move a piece somewhere that their bishop protects... Take this same scenario for example: Lets play black again... 1) e4, e5 2) Nf3, Nc6 3) d4, exd4 4) Nxd4, Nf6 5) Nxc6, bxc6 6) Bd3, d5 7) e5 PANIC! What do we play here? Most people will play either Nd7 (passive...) or Ne4 which gives away castling rights after Bxe4 and dxe4 and Qxd8+... But most low rated players will absolutely miss Ng4... Your knight is perfectly fine on g4... If its attacked, go back to "C" and remember - KNIGHTS EAT BACKWARDS TOO! And if they take it with Qxg4, the knight is protected by your own bishop! REMEMBER!? And finally, H) people that are low rated are unable to calculate en passant correctly... Many times you can play for example f4 or f5 and you are afraid of en passant... But then you turn the engine on and you see, wow, it was so easy... So these are just some things that we all missed when we were lower rated, the REASON why we are higher rated now is because we finally took notice! Thank you for coming to my TED talk :D

Very interesting analysis.

You are great

great to teach people. i sure hope people in real life don't think they can 'win' against me. this is a chess game. i wish them 'well' tho.

A) What most people do wrong when faced with a very aggressive opening is that they don't counter attack... For example... I make a pawn move and I attack your knight that is in the oppen... What is the 1st thing that comes to your mind? 1) Move the knight away? 2) Look for any pieces that the opponent has that you can ALSO attack with your own pawn? B) What most people also do wrong when faced with a very aggressive opening, is that they don't consider counter attacking moves like e4, d4 - e5 or d5... And until you really learn a lot about chess, you will not be able to defend very aggressive openings correctly by playing e4, d4 - e5 or d5, because for the most part - these moves will litterally fly over your head... C) Third reason why people are bad at defending against very aggressive openings when their elo is low, is because they don't "know" that knights can eat backwards... It sounds silly, until you see a low rated player being absolutely unable to find Nb4 after d5 for example... D) A 4th reason, is because most low rated players absolutely forget that they can take an e4, d4 or e5, d5 pawn with their knight... They always assume that these pawns are defended even though they are NOT in the opening... Meaning that their opponents might be undefending their pawns and they don't capitalize in those free pawns... Being low rated, is basically like being blind! E) 5th reason, low rated players are absolutely afraid of double pawns for some reason... Don't be afraid of them, take the free stuff when you see them... In my "C" example with d5 and then Nb4... You don't even need to see Nb4 sometimes, you can just do exd5! for example in the Sicilian... Yes you have an EXTRA pawn which is doubled... You don't like it? Give it away next moe... BUT TAKE THE FREE STUFF FIRST! F) They don't take stuff with their pawns, they take stuff with their knights instead - WHICH IS NOT OPTIMAL! Take stuff with your pawns! Lets see an example... Here we play black: 1) e4, e5 2) Nf3, Nc6 3) d4 (scary!) Many low rated players play Nxd4... But you should play exd4. Yes you took with the pawn, now you don't have an e pawn, who cares? And yes he is going to take your knight next move giving your doubled pawns, AGAIN nobody cares, its fine! And no! After he plays Nxd4 you should play Nf6... And NOT! He WONT play e5 because you TAKE the e5 pawn with your KNIGHT... Its funny but many low rated players won't see Nxe5... And I know because I used to be just like that... G) 6th reason, they don't see that they can move a piece somewhere that their bishop protects... Take this same scenario for example: Lets play black again... 1) e4, e5 2) Nf3, Nc6 3) d4, exd4 4) Nxd4, Nf6 5) Nxc6, bxc6 6) Bd3, d5 7) e5 PANIC! What do we play here? Most people will play either Nd7 (passive...) or Ne4 which gives away castling rights after Bxe4 and dxe4 and Qxd8+... But most low rated players will absolutely miss Ng4... Your knight is perfectly fine on g4... If its attacked, go back to "C" and remember - KNIGHTS EAT BACKWARDS TOO! And if they take it with Qxg4, the knight is protected by your own bishop! REMEMBER!? And finally, H) people that are low rated are unable to calculate en passant correctly... Many times you can play for example f4 or f5 and you are afraid of en passant... But then you turn the engine on and you see, wow, it was so easy... So these are just some things that we all missed when we were lower rated, the REASON why we are higher rated now is because we finally took notice!