Escaping The Fried Liver
In this position you can play ...d5 or ...Bc5
...d5 can lead to Fried Liver
...Bc5 is the Traxler Counterattack
To avoid these wild complications, don't play 3...Nf6
IpswichMatt: You can easily avoid these "Wild complications" with the line above, except white usually plays 8.Be2 rather than 8.Qf3. Black gets all the attacking fun in these lines, and white has to play very precisely to defend.
@Twinchicky - Please expand on your post - this is the Fried Liver, how can Black avoid this if he's played 3...Nf6 ?
@IpswichMatt:
He can avoid the Fried Liver by playing 5...Na5 (The mainline Two Knights Defense) rather than 5...Nxd5? . White is put on the defending side in the Na5 lines, and has plenty of opportunities to make mistakes.
According to Wikipedia, "The move 8.Qf3?!, popular in the nineteenth century and revived by Efim Bogoljubov in the twentieth, is still played occasionally, but Black obtains a strong attack after either 8...h6! or 8...Rb8." 8...Be7 seems to have the most success in chesstempo's database.