Fried Liver Attack

fried_liver_200x200At this morning’s chess club meeting, we showed a Chesskid.com video on the Fried Liver Attack opening.

Chesskid.com Video

The Fried Liver Attack, also called the Fegatello Attack (named after an Italian idiom meaning “dead as a piece of liver”), is a chess opening. This colorfully named opening is a variation of the Two Knights Defense in which White sacrifices a knight for an attack on Black’s king.

The Fried Liver has been known for many centuries, the earliest known example being a game played by Giulio Cesare Polerio in about 1610.