Weakens the h5-e8 diagonal.Terrible move.

Congrats to the one person who won using black after Nxe5 because this opening is terrible

To the genius who said 4...g6 to block the check... 5.Qxe5. Black loses a rook, a pawn, and the game :)

My opinion of this: Easy, easy win for white. Most of the people who actually know enough opening theory to know the traps behind Nxe5 fxe5?? are the people who wouldnt play the opening.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess/Sample_chess_game#3._Nxe5

That about sums it up.

Have you seen the game where Petroff lost his queen 13 moves later?

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3. Nxe5 fxe5?? 4. Qh5+! g6 5. Qxe5+

and black is screwed. He cannot trap the queen after QxR (trust me).

3. Nxe5 Ne7 4. Nf3 and black can be ok, but it's certainly not a great opening, as there is no compensation in sight for the lost pawn.

Not good.

poor move.it exposes black's king.it weakens black's kingside & takes away the knight's best square.

i played and i won in like, 11 moves

i played this opening i lost in 19 moves i think. i always seem 2 open with this or the c6 whale i think

Oh yeah, 3. Nxe5...Q-e7 and all of those aforementioned tactics are averted. And this isn't a "death sentence", it drew against Bobby Fischer in 1964.

People play too conservatively nowadays. C'mon, forget about castling, trade off your pieces, and centralize your king quickly for endgame. Besides, 3. Nxe5 ... fxe5 4. Qg5 isn't check, and it isn't possible, coyotte. If you mean 4. Q-h5+, black can promptly reply with ... g6! and white is down in material and tempo. If people nowadays are willing to play Bird's Opening, they shouldn't be so dismissive of this. Just have confidence and a good eye for white's tactics and the advantage will come as black gains more space. I'm not saying it's great, or even that it's as sound as other defenses like the Petroff, the Sicillian or even the Scandinavian, but it isn't like a death sentence either. If black plays 2. ... N-e7, f6 can be played, easily.

we shall see

Nxe5 fxe5

Qg5+

And then it becomes hell for blacks

I played this way, and it was a very bad opening..I think I need to think up of another opening.

never play this way... you lose it