Can everyone please get a clue about what is and is not the Fried Liver

The following is the Fried Liver; anything else, including moves before the concluding move 6.Nxf7, such as merely 4.Ng5, are NOT the Fried Liver.

I'm posting this here as a sort of canonical answer -- feel free to point the misinformed to this post, so we can stop littering the openings forum.  Or maybe we need specialized openings forums: "The Fried Liver", "The French Exchange", and so forth

I assume you are reacting to something... perhaps you would care to share what that is...

I take offense to your use of the term  "littering"

I mean, what would chess.com be without endless posts about how "tactical" people are?  Or..."I know <insert openings here> 20 moves deep, but i drop pieces, what am i doing wrong?" One of my personal favorites: "Is Bobby Fischer the greatest player of all times?"  And lets not forget any combination of the following: "Im tactically agressive...agressively tactical...attackingly tactically agressive...attackingly agressively tactical....And a good ole chess.com favorite: "How do i report someone?"

These posts are the reason i get out of bed each morning.

Just reacting to the same stuff that gets posted here over and over.  There's another site that is mostly strictly dedicated to the openings but I can't name it because they are somewhat in competition with chess.com.  But in fact their forums are split into sub-forums about the different openings and even (major) variations.  Plus they are moderated, which helps keep things very clean to a point.  I think chess.com missed the boat with v3 by not making moderated forums, or at least having a reputation system.

Anyway guess I just need to lay off the chess.com forums.  Wish there were a way to make the right hand side bar invisible -- it's actually quite an easy thing to implement as a web developer (which I am) using a collapsible/expandable "panel".  Maybe I'll look into building a chrome extension for that.

Yes, but do you ever get out in public 

I think my favourite threads would have to be the ones claiming to offer a refutation of this or that opening line, eg.

"Berlin Wall Refutation !!"

"Refutation to the Ruy Lopez"

or the best yet

"Another refutation to 1.e4"

Not anymore than i need to...

I agree sarajevo. That always bugs me too. You would think in a forum dedicated to openings that people would be able to identify them correctly, if nothing else.

I have seen many threads that state the position after 4. Ng5 is the "Fried Liver" as well.

I like playing the Fried Liver after d4 and Nf3.  It leads to some really interesting attacks!

I like eating fried liver while I play chess.  Lots of iron, good for building up your strength.

Absolutely unfathomable.  I have Stockfish analyze my games and it's so stupid it thinks my opponent was winning!  But I got a checkmate so what does that stupid computer know?

Without the grilled onions, fried liver is not worth eating.

Thanks for this thread. I'll post a link to it in every "fried liver" thread that tastes like cardboard.

what is the answer to c4 if I want slow building tactical with the black pieces. Particulararly if white plays c5 after c4 if i dont play c5 first.

I play the Fried Liver on the queenside sometimes.

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What's up, no mortadella on sight?

Does this mean I can't call my cat fried liver, if I had a cat ...

You certainly can call your call fried liver, you just cant call your cat fried liver and play with it.

I prefer Fried Liver with some fava beans.