Hey guys, just sharing a good chess trap I learned some time ago.

Everybody may know the Fried Liver Attack. It’s one of the first tactics every book mentions in the begging:

You certainly, know how to defend against it. You can simply keep the queen diagonal opened or play h6 to keep the knight away of g5. Even better, leave quickly with your king side bishop, then you can castle before the attack.

But here is a more interesting way of playing against the Fried Liver.

From here White have two options:

We are good with both.

Then we play d5 forking the knight and the bishop. In the end we would be pretty much equal but with more control over the center.

Then we play:

Nice, hum?

Now, test it some games. You would be surprise how people fall for it in bullet and even some blitz games.

Cheers,