Remis_Aman wrote on 06/22/05 at 22:04:57:
Dear chessfriends,
I'm planning to do a detailed notes on the Fried Liver Attack {ECO C57}. Do you have any further moves suggestion (or from references like ECO Volume C, 4th edition esp.) to make one of this lines below esp. clear?
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nf6
4. Ng5 d5
5. exd5 Nxd5?!
6. Nxf7!? Kxf7
7. Qf3+ Ke6
8. Nc3 Ncb4!
9. Qe4 c6:
10. a3 Na6 11. d4 Nac7 12. Bf4 (12.O-O Kf7 13.dxe5 Be6 unclear; 12.f4 Kf7 13.fxe5 Be6 14. O-O+ Ke8 unclear e.g. 15.Qf3 Qh4; 12.Qxe5+?! Kf7 13.O-O Be6 14.Ne4 Qd7) 12. Kf7 13. Bxe5 (13.dxe5 Be6 14.O-O-O Qe7 =; 13.O-O-O!?) 13. Be6 14. O-O (14.O-O-O?! Qg5+ 15.f4 Nxc3 16.Qf3 Qg6 17.Qxc3 Nd5 18.Qb3 Nb6 19.Bxe6+ Qxe6 =+) 14. Bd6 unclear;
Any help on this is greatly appreciated. thanks.
There's some info in this thread here:
http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1269280756/30 Master_Om controversially claimed that Black was better or winning in all lines based on hard computer analysis, but most of the rest of us (myself included) reached similar conclusions to those in the quote above.
A short summary of the improvements for both sides: after 12.f4 Kf7 13.fxe5 Be6 14.0-0+, if 14...Ke8 then I prefer White, but after Master_Om's suggestion 14...Kg8 I can't offer any advance on "unclear". In the line 12.Bf4 Kf7 13.Bxe5 Be6, 14.0-0 Nf6! leaves Black with an edge, but White can deviate with 14.Qf3+ with similar lines to those following 12.f4.
Interesting that Conquistador suggests
9.Bb3 as this is Fritz's first choice and an option that none of us considered in the other thread. I'll have to take a closer look at it when I have more time.
Re. 5...Nxd5 6.d4 Nxd4 7.c3, my impression is that it's probably just += with best play but that Black has to walk a tightrope to reach it. Again I've seen this discussed elsewhere on the forum.
Then Its time to post my analysis I have been running. lets see if this is controversial again.