The Attack on F

are you asking how black could defend against the attack?

yeah

#5, I don't think that works. white wins a pawn and stops black from castleing.

#1, maybe 3...,d6 instead of 3...,Nf6 transposing into a Phillidor defense. Followed by Be7, Nf6, and 0-0 however appropriate to do so. White does have interposing moves like d4.

That doesn't work because of Nxf7, followed by Qf3+ if the king takes the knight. Black is lost.

Fried Liver.

My personal favorite method

Fried Liver

Bishop take f7 pawn or horse take f7 pawn

I'm not going to tell you how to defend against my FAVORITE tactic!

Bump

hey this was a great teaching post--- all the games posted gave a real uptick in how to look at this problem which I have quite regularly and for once I understood what was being accomplished

Thanks to all---- wish there were more posts like this where knowledge is easily shared and explained

Just pick one of these lines. All are mighty fine for Black.

This is a line which is practically tough to play as Black, but he is not lost- by a long shot.