Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 10:05:44 12/11/03
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On December 11, 2003 at 12:48:55, Marcus Prewarski wrote: >Since we are talking about the Fried Liver Attack this brings another position >to mind. In my personal games I've started playing the Petrof defense and I >sometimes see this line: > >1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nxf7 > >I hope I got it right doing it from memory. Anyways the first time I saw this >from white I thought it was complete crap, but I've learned to take this >seriously, it leads to some real complications for black. It does. Some years ago, Topalav played this gambit against Kramnik and got a draw. >I wonder if any >engines would consider 4. Nxf7 here. Mine doesn't. It prefers 4. Nf3, which it evaluates as about +0.3 for white. When I let it analyze the position after 4. Nxf7, it returns a score of +0.08 in black's favor after 12 plies. Tord
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