347,995 Players Fell For This Trap 😮

Summary

The video teaches a clever opening trap in response to the popular Fried Liver Attack, which lower-rated players often use. When white plays the sacrificial Knight to g5 move, black responds unconventionally with Knight to d4 rather than recapturing the pawn. This tempts white to play d6, allowing a brutal queen sacrifice by black. Even if white avoids the trap, black retains a strong position thanks to the active queen and developed light-squared bishop aimed at the vulnerable white king.

Takeaways

• 😀 The fried liver attack is a common chess opening that lower rated players love to play as white
• 😮 But there's a sneaky trap black can use to punish white for going for the fried liver
• 👌 Play the rare Knight d4 move after white plays Ng5 and takes on d5
• 💡 If white plays d6, go for the queen trap with Qxd6 and you might get a quick checkmate
• 🤔 But even against smart opponents, Knight d4 leads to good positions for black
• 🚀 Black gets very active pieces while white struggles to develop
• ⚡ Black has threats like checkmating on h2 or dominating the center
• 😊 There's a downloadable PGN in the video description to practice the lines
• 🔥 This tricky system works well for black against 1000-1600 rated players
• 💪 So study the trap and counter trap ideas to score quick wins as black

Q & A

What opening is White trying to play in the example game?

The Fried Liver Attack, which is an aggressive attempt by White to quickly checkmate Black after sacrificing a knight on f7.

What rare move does the author recommend playing instead of recapturing the knight?

Knight to d4, which sets up a tricky trap.

What is the common mistake White makes that allows Black's trap?

Pushing the d-pawn forward with d6, blocking in the light-squared bishop.

How does Black punish d6 by White?

By playing Queen takes d6, forking the knight on f7 and rook on a1.

What clever move does Black have to win the queen?

After White recaptures the rook, play Queen takes g2 check followed by Queen e4 check and smothered mate.

How many players have fallen into this trap?

Over 300,000 players between 1000-1600 rating.

What if White doesn't play d6 - what is the main line?

Usually c3 attacking the knight. Black counterattacks the bishop with b5 and gets an equal position.

What are Black's threats if White castles in that line?

Lots of mate threats on the kingside due to control of key squares, open lines for both bishops aimed at the white king.

What is Black's main goal in this opening?

To punish aggressive and unwise play from White. Even without traps, Black obtains a solid position.

Who is this opening trap designed for?

Players rated between 1000-1600, though it may work against higher rated opponents as well.

Outlines

00:00

😲 How to punish white's aggressive Fried Liver Attack opening

This paragraph explains how white often plays the aggressive Fried Liver Attack in the Two Knights Defense after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5. It recommends playing 4...d5 5. exd5 Nxd4 to punish white. If white plays 6. d6, black can play 6...Qxd6 7. Nxf7 Kxe7 8. Qf3 and eventually win white's bishop and dominate the game. Another trap is if white takes the knight on d4, black can force checkmate in just 10 moves.

05:01

😎 What to do if opponent avoids the trap

This paragraph discusses what to do if white avoids the trap by playing 6. c3 instead of 6. d6. After 6...Be5 7. Nxe5 Nxe5 8. dxe5 Qxd1 9. Nxd1 dxe5, black has the better position despite missing pawns. White's pieces are undeveloped while black is ready to attack. Black has threats like Bb7 and can easily castle kingside and dominate the position. White struggles to find good moves without hanging mate.

Keywords

💡Fried Liver Attack

A chess opening for White that aims to quickly attack and dominate Black's position. It involves sacrificing a knight to lure Black's king out into the center of the board where it will be vulnerable. The video teaches how to set a trap for opponents trying to execute the Fried Liver Attack.

💡trap

A clever trick or tactic in chess aimed at catching the opponent by surprise. The video teaches a specific trap to punish opponents if they play into the Fried Liver Attack by pushing their d pawn forward to d6.

💡quick wins

The video promises that learning this trap against the Fried Liver Attack will enable the viewer to quickly checkmate opponents and achieve fast victories.

💡solid opening

An opening chess move or sequence of moves that gives the player a balanced position without significant weaknesses. Even if the opponent does not fall for the trap, the opening presented still leaves Black in a good solid position.

💡threat

A move that attacks a valuable opponent's piece or important square, forcing a response. The video discusses various threats created in the sequence of moves, e.g. the threat of checkmate on f7.

💡pin

A chess tactic where a piece is prevented from moving because doing so would expose a more valuable piece behind it. Pins are created at certain points, like the pin of the white king and queen.

💡punish

To severely exploit an opponent's mistake or weak move by capturing pieces or checkmating. The overall goal is to punish White players who go for the standard Fried Liver Attack.

💡control

To attack or threaten squares, limiting opponent piece movement. After the sequence, Black controls many key squares while White has almost no control.

💡checkmate

The goal of chess to attack the opponent's king in such a way that no escape or block is possible. The video teaches a smothered checkmate combination to finish White off.

💡threaten

To attack a piece or square, forcing a response. Black creates various mating threats that are difficult for White to meet.

Highlights

Learn a trap in the Two Knights Defense to punish the Fried Liver Attack

The trap tricks opponents into a quick checkmate after just 10 moves

Over 300,000 players between 1000-1600 rating have fallen for this trap

Play the tricky move Nd4 instead of recapturing the pawn

White often plays d6, falling right into the trap

Take the pawn with the queen, threaten the rook to force Kf1, then deliver checkmate

Even against stronger opponents, Nd4 leads to a good position for black

Tactics involve a bishop sacrifice and threats down the open f-file

White's undeveloped pieces get punished as black seizes control

Two main continuations for white are analyzed in depth

Black has threats against f2 and dangerous diagonals aiming at the white king

White struggles to find safe squares for the king and coordinate pieces

Black has ideas like bringing the queen over or sacrificing on f3 to deliver checkmate

This trap works extremely well against 1000-1600 rated opponents

Be ready to punish those going for the Fried Liver with this deadly response

Transcripts

if you're rated between 1 000 and 1600

there's a very good chance you've seen

this move a lot this is the start of

What's called the fried liver attack

there's all kinds of videos on YouTube

about why this is such an amazing

opening for white and that's why you see

it all the time everybody is trying to

play the fried liver attack but today

I'm going to show you a trap that you

can play in response to this that over

300 000 people have fallen for it's

going to get you a lot of quick wins but

the nice thing is even if they don't

fall for the Trap it's still a solid

opening that leaves you in a good

position let's go ahead and see how you

can punish this move

all right so E4 E5 the most common

response is Knight to F3 Knight to C6

and Bishop to C4 this is the Italian

game and you really have two main

options Knight to F6 and Bishop to C5 I

personally prefer the two knights

defense Knight to F6 and if that's what

you play and you're rated between 1 000

and 1600 there's a very very high

probability that your opponent is going

to play the move Knight to G5 it's

threatening a fork on F7

and it's setting up to go into the fried

liver attack now if you're unfamiliar

with that if you play the move D5 what

white is hoping for is that after they

take you'll recapture here and they will

sacrifice their Knight on F7 trying to

lure your king out they'll play Queen to

F3 check forking these guys the only way

you can defend is if you go up here and

you end up with your king in the center

of the board and they get to attack you

and it's a lot of fun for white and not

a lot of fun for black so I don't

recommend that you play that

although I do have a video on the

Channel showing that you can play it if

you want but today we're going to be

looking at a different response so when

they play Knight to G5 we're still

playing D5 everybody's going to take you

with the pawn that's really the only

move here for white but now instead of

recapturing with your knight here you're

gonna play the surprising move Knight to

D4 now this is not a very common move

okay the the common line here if you're

not going to go for the fried liver is

Knight to A5 so this probably some of

your opponents have seen before but

Knight to D4 it's a very rare move and

it has an incredible idea behind it so I

want to flip the board for a second here

to White's perspective and the most

common move okay between 1 000 and 1600

rated players in this position is the

move D6 now why would they play this

move well it's really quite obvious they

you know the whole game they've been

going for this attack on F7 the Pawn's

in their way so they think well I'll

just push it Forward let black capture

it somehow and then I'll have my

follow-up fork okay so that's kind of

the idea that's why you see this move

all the time so what do we do against

this we play the move Queen takes D6

now you might be thinking Nelson we're

still getting forked like did we miss

this what are we doing right and this is

exactly what we are hoping our opponents

will do now there's really two moves

that have been played here with any kind

of regularity Knight takes and Bishop

takes if they take with the bishop this

is the better option for white but it's

still okay for us and I'm going to show

you a little trap here if they do this

one as well so King to E7 we move and

they have to save their Bishop because

if they don't move their Bishop let's

just say the castle what we're going to

do is play the move H6 and now when they

move the Knight their Bishop is no

longer defended and we simply can take

their you know their Bishop for free so

that's kind of the problem for white so

they have to move this bishop and going

back to B3 is really the only safe

Square for them and when they do that we

simply take it and we kick the Knight

away and watch what happens to this

Knight there's really not a lot of

options because our Knight's controlling

here Bishop's controlling here this is

these are all controlled so they have to

go back to F3 we attack it again

and most players at this point are going

to say well I don't want to move my

knight I'll pin your Pawn so that I

don't have to move it but we just slide

our King over and guess what now they

have to move their Knight and if you

look carefully the Knight can't go here

it can't go here it can't go here it

can't go here here because of our Queen

it can't go here because of our pawn it

only has two options and they're both

bad for white if it goes here guess what

G5 traps the Knight the Knight is gone

you can't go here you can't go here

because our Bishop and you can't go here

because our King goodbye to the Knight

okay so if they don't want to lose their

Knight they have to go back to G1 but

that's a terrible move because now they

can't castle look at their pieces

they're all in the back Rank and we can

simply just keep up the pressure Bishop

to G4 attacks the queen and if they try

to block guess what we take it doesn't

matter how they recapture bam Rook to E1

we pin the king and the queen you can

see how much fun this is for us right so

even if okay even if they take with the

bishop going back to this position after

we take with the queen even if they do

this we're in good shape bring the king

up trade the knife for the bishop and

just go attack the Knight that's all you

have to remember all right now most

people are not going to do that they're

going to take with the Knight and

they're gonna go for the fork I mean

they spend all this time setting it up

right sacrificing the pawn this is what

they're gonna do

and that's exactly what we want because

we have the move Queen to C6 and a lot

of people think oh we're attacking the

bishop but I'm gonna get a rook okay

it's not a big deal and they're gonna

take your Rook again they've put all

this time and effort into this they're

kind of committed to this plan right so

they take the Rook but we don't take the

bishop we have bigger fish to fry Queen

takes G2 which is attacking The Rook

with a check now how do they save The

Rook there's only one move Rook to F1

and now what do we do queen to E4 check

and the King cannot move white has a

choice between giving up their Queen

which nobody's going to want to do or

blocking with the bishop but if they go

here do you see how we're going to

follow up

well that's correct Knight to F3 is

Checkmate that's a smothered Checkmate

the bishop can't take because the queen

is pinning it and the game is over in

just 10 moves incredible right and like

I said this is pretty common okay going

back here 300

000 people

um sorry after this move 300 000 people

have played the move D6 okay going for

this

so

um that's the basic trap okay we take

with the queen they Fork us we go Queen

C6 they take here we take here we go

back with the check and we win the game

like this now some of you are thinking

but Nelson what if I'm playing a smart

opponent who doesn't fall for the Trap

what do I do all right let's take a look

but let's say

um they take you play Knight to D4

and they don't play D6 the other move

that some people will actually the most

common second move

is C3 they say okay

putting his Knight there I'm just gonna

attack it with my Pawn

and what we're gonna do here is play the

move beat five so we're counter

attacking the bishop so that when they

take our Knight we take their Bishop

okay so usually you're gonna get this

trade

and then most players with white are

going to notice that they can just take

this pawn and get both Pawns in the

center so they're going to take and now

we are going to take D5 and by the way

I'm going to put a PGN uh in the

description you can copy and paste that

into like leeches or chess.com so you

don't have to try to like memorize all

this stuff and it's going to be down

there for you but we're going to take

with the queen

and yes our Knight is hanging but watch

what happens when they take we take

their Knight so it was just a trade and

you might think oh but they're going to

take here but Watch What Happens we take

back and it might look like our position

is is kind of open like we're missing

some pawns we got some bad Pawn

structure but actually white is the one

in trouble because we have a thread here

and they're not developed they haven't

developed a single piece we already have

our Bishop ready to go this bishop is

about to come out the Queen's in a good

active place and so Watch What Happens

most players will Castle to defend this

and you simply played Bishop B7 and

we're threatening Checkmate here and

it's not an easy Checkmate to deal with

there's a lot of ways that white can go

wrong here for example if they play G3

they've totally weakened these squares

long term and we simply Castle

and just take a moment and look at how

many squares we are controlling look at

this this look at this bishop look at

our Rook controlling all of these look

at our Queen controlling this and this

and this and this and this I mean we're

like controlling almost the entire board

and look at White's pieces

nothing okay this is great you've got

ideas of bringing the queen here to go

for a Checkmate you can push this Pawn

up too and trade here to open up the

Rook for a Checkmate you can also just

bring the Rook over and play in the

center so many good moves okay

the other option is that they can play

F3 trying to shut down your Bishop like

this but then you come in with Bishop to

D4 check forces the king over Rook to G8

piling on threatening Checkmate yes

there's a little check but we don't care

just slide the king to D7 you're totally

safe this rook's coming over here to E1

to E8 you've got the Checkmate threats

you've got both Bishops laser beaming at

the King Fantastic okay so that's just

kind of an example even if they don't

fall for your trap it's not a bad line

okay

and so I highly recommend this trust me

when I say if you're rated between 1 000

and 1600 you are going to see this from

time to time and if you are ready for it

play D5 and when they take you hop the

Knight into D4 review the lines that we

just covered and you are going to get a

lot of quick wins hope you guys enjoyed

this video as always thanks for watching

stay sharp play smart and take care

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