Berlin Defense

Hello guys! Welcome back to my blog! My avatar has changed to an award on chess.com called "Printing Press" for uploading the 10th blog on chess.com. My blog "e4 e5 Nf3 f6!?" was the 10th blog and I got this award. And I uploaded it the minute I got this award.
Anyways, let's move on to my 2nd blog on openings tour.

It is in the "Ruy Lopez" opening. I have made a seperate blog for that. If you don't know the opening or want to learn new variations, click on this link below: https://www.chess.com/blog/Avayukt30/ruy-lopez

Nf6 is known as the "Berlin Defense". The idea is to counter attack the e4 pawn. If white takes Bxc6, black takes with the d-pawn, opening up their LSB and opening up their queen because Nxe5 is a mistake due to Qe4, forking (double attacking at the same time) the e4 pawn and the knight, and when the knight moves to safety, Qxe4+, Kf1 loses the right to castle and Qe2 is met with Qxe2+ Kxe2 and white still can't castle and black is slightly better. 

The best moves for white are d3, supporting the e4 pawn, or 0-0. 

d3 leads to tactical and sharp variations which I will cover in a month or two. Nxe4 I am covering in this blog. So, Nxe4, white can play Re1, attacking the knight and the e5 pawn behind. But, there is a drawing variation with Nxe4 d4.

White plays d4 to open up the center. dxe4 is met with Re1, attacking the knight and white is better because of slightly great development and white can focus development by gaining tempo by attacking the e4 knight. So, black plays Nd6, attacking the bishop. They trade bishop for knight, then the central d4 and e5 pawns, and black's knight is attacked, so black moves it to f5. Then after queen trade, it is a forced queenless endgame draw. 

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