
This aggressive opening is the NEW Fried Liver!
So first we start with the Giuoco Piano Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Italian Four Knights, Canal Variation.
What you want to do as black is h6, kicking the bishop. What you don’t want to do is castle.
O-O in this position is an inaccuracy, allowing White, (you), to play Nd4, threatening the pinned knight. Now the board looks like this. We don’t want to castle yet because we have a nice tempo that we don’t want to ruin. Now the best move is Be6 for black. Then knight takes knight, pawn takes knight, and you threaten the rook with Bh8.
W opening. What we want to do now is maneuver our knight to block the opposing light-squared bishop’s diagonal to get mate in 2 with our queen.
But, that’s because they played d3. What if they played a3 instead?
Alright here’s the board in the a3 variation. It’s all or nothing here for black. Stockfish is screaming for bishop e7. So let’s say they played bishop e7.
Then a knight trade and we’re up 0.4.
But let’s say your opponent plays h6 for some reason.
Again we knight trade, then we take the pawn, threatening the rook again. And our opponent saves the rook again. What we do now is knight h4. Here’s the board.
We now enjoy our checkmate threat and our 4.3 advantage.