How to play againest the fried liver as black?

You can either trap white or win more material if your opponent plays otherwise. Here is an example.

You can watch Chessvibes yt video. I also learnt it from there.

If white knows what he's doing and doesn't take bishop, it's +2 for white

If u play something else instead of e5 like French caro Scandinavian or sicilan then u can avoid it

But I think the trailer is a good response if u do play e5

Traxler*

That's what stockfish thought at first, then when I plugged in my moves against it changed to negative 4.

Bxf7 seemingly gives white an easy advantage. Black hoping that white does another move instead of the correct refutation should not be what you rely on.

"++ 3...Bc5 violates the principle to develop knights first and only then bishops."

Principles are just general guidelines. They are not rules.

Its typically better to develop knights before bishops because often they can be kicked around without the knights developed, and f7/b7 can become quite weak. A good example of this would be the winaver variation of the french, where white often targets f7 because it is weak.

I disagree. Master games-Fried Liver

GM's such as Caruana, Nakamaura, Grischuk, Aronion, Wesley So, Nepo, have all played it recently.

We are talking about the fried liver proper (5.Nxd5 6.Nxf7) Rather then the Polerio, 5.b5, or 5.Nd4.

I put this on the same forum!

Does anyone recommend fried liver for beginners?