Is the Main line of the Fried Liver wrong?

On 9. 0-0....it never hurts to castle....safety first !.....

NM Dan Heisman after exhaustive analysis confirmed by GM Larry Kaufman relying on Komodo analyzed that position as equal. However, as IM Phren has pointed out these pros and I missed---6.d4 Nxd4! 7.c3 b5 8.Bxd5 Qxd5 9.f3! What Heisman and Kaufman should have considered was to leave the piece en prise and just take away the resource Qxg2.

Yeah, 10.dxe5 cooks Qe8; I kept trying to make Bxe7 work to hit d5 but 10.dxe5 is a killer. If 10...Qf7 11.Qe3 with the deadly threat O-O-O

I usually offer my knowledge for free, but for you, I can make an exception: The analysis of those lines will cost you a measly $ 150.

Mostly not my work, but I have blunderchecked them for many hours, and they are fine, as far as I am concerned.

If interested, please PM me. Alternatively, you can analyse yourself with no charge, but the result will be ridiculous- as usual...

Is it ethical on a free site to solicit business?

he's being sarcastic

The 'important messages' that you see sometimes when you log in are trying to tell you to get premium membership... that's soliciting business, isn't it? And chess.com is a business

(Obviously, the usually verbose, mild-mannered IM-heh-was being sarcastic. OF COURSE you know that, but you continue to "play along". I'm assuming you're thick-skinned, and anything i say even with the best of intentions, will probably not mean much...but i'm compelled to ask why champion an obscure variation-for both sides-to such an degree?)

I don't really care... and I certainly won't educate total illiterates like you for free. Factly, i will teach illiterals for free, but definitely not arrogant/ignorant ones, like you.

And... oh, yes, chess.com is not the definition of a free site. Most premium services cost money.

And NO, I was not sarcastic. I was dead serious.

Chess players are an odd lot. Some think that obscure variations are worth studying for a lifetime. NM Dan Heisman spent years studying the Traxler and the Fried Liver; he published a 260 page CD on the Traxler alone which is even more obscure than the Fried Liver.

I have only had contact with two obnoxious professionals Phren, you and Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich. I have had extensive courteous contact from a variety of Grandmasters, International Masters, International Correspondence Masters and countless rank and file members of the chess community---the only professional who has been rude and arrogant, Phren is you.

You refer to me as "illiterate"; I am on the front cover of Infinite Energy Magazine for three articles I have written---One called, "Beyond Plate Tectonics: 'Plate' Dynamics, a second called, "The Eclipse Data of 1919: The Greatest Hoax in 20th Century Science" and "Hormesis and the Rebirth of Nuclear Power".

I was also on George Noory's Program Coast to Coast for three hours promoting my new model.

I have published a full length article for the Mensa Bulletin, the high IQ society.

And your "literate" accomplishments are???

Agreed. I must say, i really admire that. Although, i like diving into certain lines for more practical application rather than for it's theoretical merits.

It's cool, though, which is why i like following this kind of thread. I realize there are many different paths to one's self-improvement in Chess; and not the least of all, is the Philosophical. Indeed, i'm appreciative, if not being the more better off for it, in having this conversation with you. Keep the faith.

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Certainly way most important that yours.

Won't bother mentioning them... Google it, sir.

The emphasis of pfrens argument wasn't whether you were illiterate or not. You might be a well respected geographer, could be. The point is however that you are an arrogant somebody who thinks being well respected on one subject makes him better on all. The fact that you mention mensa only strengthens this idea. Pfren is just a better chess player then you and when he's trying to help you, accept the advice from an IM and leave the arrogance behind...

calm down jerk

I have received "help" from players vastly stronger than Pfren---many have never charged for their advice and they treated me as a peer---never with the rude, arrogant attitude he Pfren has exhibited.

the only reason pfren was annoyed was because you used engines to evaluate an opening position while it is known that engines generally do not score well on this aspect of chess. you then continued "analyzing" the same opening even though people already got annoyed with you when you used an engine. Also Pfren helps alot of people on this site when they pose useful questions (or even when they don't) and doesn't charge. If you stop engine using and do some real analysis maybe then you will be taken seriously, you are so smart anyway, shouldn't be that hard. ;)

the IM basically calls the guy a moron 3 or 4 times in his first post for no reason lol.  You can try to defend this however you want, doesn't make it right.  IM title isn't a carte blanche to be a jerk.

All of which raises serious questions concerning the poverty of your analysis of the Fegatello Attack. That is, IM pfren suggested that your method of analysis was flawed, and he described his own. This thread could have developed in a productive direction from there had you let it.