Crush the Fried Liver Like Magnus Carlsen (Polerio Defense)

The Fried Liver Attack is one of the most brutal chess openings to play against as a chess beginner. This video shows how Magnus Carlsen crushes the opening, while featuring his beautiful endgame technique as a guide.
The Fried Liver is technically the line where black recaptures on d5 with the knight, which is what white is hoping you play (It is a horrible position for black). This video shows how Magnus avoids this line after Ng5 to get an easy to play position.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Opening Discussion
3:25 Endgame Discussion
8:31 Conclussion
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[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks for watching everyone :D
Let me know if you have a topic you'd like to see next!

[@whatsmylogin]

Good, clear explanations, thanks mate.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks for the comment :)

[@sababakhtertonoy6986]

Nice video man. Keep it up❤

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks ❤️

[@knight764]

shoutout the the gigachad playing fried liver against magnus

[@ChessBlueprints]

He did his best lol

[@Chizurumoke]

Nice review 👏🏽

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thank you :D

[@kryptoncr1841]

deserves a follow!

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks :)

[@MrRwilczek]

This is not the Fried Liver, but one way to play the 'Prussian Game', a pretty solid variation of the Italian Game.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks for letting me know. I've updated the description to make it more clear :)

[@dub-jscrub-j2762]

This isn’t the fried liver attack. The fried liver attack only happens after 5…Nxd5 6. Nxf7. For some reason people think that if you play Ng5 in any position it somehow becomes the fried liver attack. The name comes from the fact that the king is moving up the board, not after white’s king knight.

[@jxeu1128]

Good presentation

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thank you :D

[@donhamilton3699]

This is not the Fried Liver... 5...Nxd5 is the Fried Liver.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks I didn't actually know that. I barely ever get that line in my games :(

[@Knightmovesfirst]

He is probably saying fried liver because he is going for the fried liver set up, but black did not play into it. Instead black played this

[@landen99]

Nice!

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks!

[@rommeloracion9453]

Thats how I tackle that game most of the time I'm on black pieces of chess game.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Yeah super solid hey

[@babstra55]

playing magnus is like playing an engine - you think you have something, then magnus makes a move and nah you didn't have anything.

[@ChessBlueprints]

And it's all because of this long engine line he has calculated ahaha must be so lame

[@Jrush2000]

I play the fried liver for both sides as a 1600 and have a high winrate with it. If you know the structures and middlegames then you'll be fine.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Yeah it's a ton of fun 😁

[@someshkilari]

How do you counter the Traxler?

[@andariyanganj]

LOVE

[@ChessBlueprints]

❤️

[@Knightmovesfirst]

Im confused,,you call this what Magnus played the Polerio Defense and what Hikaru played thePolerio Defense. I always seen what Hikaru played was the Chigorin counter attack.

[@ChessBlueprints]

These were most popular on chess.com at the time I made the videos, could be different now :)

[@SpaceGenome]

4:24 Knite b3 is just stupid, I'd do Knite B5 menacing c7 fork and gain a tempo to get that bishop out, (and I'm a beginner so maybe I'm wrong but b3 looks stupid to me)

[@ChessBlueprints]

Yeah the dude was way too keen to just trade everything hey

[@pommedemer1922]

Bro really put blunders on the thumbnail like if the fried liver is not a legit opening if not one of the best lines against nf6

[@ChessBlueprints]

Ahaha yeah I know Wesley actually recommends it in his e4 course

[@IgorYagolnitser]

It's not really a Fried Liver unless Black retakes on d5.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Such a fun line for white :)

[@dannygjk]

If you think those two moves in the image are question mark moves I'll play you. 😏

[@ChessBlueprints]

and you'll probably win ahaha
I'm JakeRL123 if you want to :)

[@niravapurv4578]

1:58 Ba4? Thats a mistake in polerio defence. Does not look like you know the teory here but still a nice game rewiew. I understand its not advisable to enter the fried liver as black to people who dont study the lines there realy well. But i used to play fried liver as white. Now i stopped playing it as white and sometimes i have played it as black. I even played it over the board in classic game and i won that game. In freid liver white gives up a knight for a pawn and a exposed black king. And even the computer jumps forth and back in the lines. White realy has to know how to attack here if black knows about to handle it. Very risky i know. Easy for black to do a mistake. But it was realy funny to beat that guy. He took on f7 in the speed of a blitz game already showing he was thinking that he was already winning. Then few moves later showing that he did nkt know the variations that deep and that it was not that 3asy. Many players going for the fried liver are banking on the early mistakes. I started playing the lolli attack instead. I think the lolli is better. Delaying sacrificing the knight to a better moment.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Yeah I've lost a few games as white after Nxf7. Nice job with your games

[@iainbozfelt]

Just use the Traxler - white has no chance!!

[@ChessBlueprints]

Bxf7 takes all the fun out of it :(

[@dustlass]

Imagine not playing Modern Defense as black. Couldn't be me!

[@ChessBlueprints]

You're saving yourself a lot of stress learning all this e4 e5 theory ahaha

[@FcGerman]

I dont get it, people are scared of the Fried Liver, so stop playing Nf6 so fast, Bc5 or e7 and you wont have this problem, i see no advantage to play Nf6 before.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Honestly that is great advice

[@jobersudyobodou9362]

Made it to 5:50, but the music was too annoying to continue. Pretty good video otherwise.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Hmmmm thanks for letting me know. I'll turn it down

[@jobersudyobodou9362]

@@ChessBlueprints Maybe you can find an audience that likes background music. Judging from the most popular sites, though, music is not popular. I have the same problem with math sites that play music. It's just too distracting for intense thinking.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Thanks that's a good point. I'll take a look like you're suggesting

[@jamesbell1613]

You really have to be a novice to fall for this.

[@ChessBlueprints]

Lot's of beginner chess players out there :)

[@Kirito_wr]

Nah this is boring im gonna stick with my traxler

[@nopurposeposting1548]

ikr hit their cheese with your own cheese

[@ChessBlueprints]

Ahaha fair

[@OrtegaSauce]

Yessssss

[@cocenjoyer85692]

Veey dogwater opening tho

[@OrtegaSauce]

@@cocenjoyer85692 so is the fried liver lmao