2 Knights defence.

Originally posted by jgvaccaro
I don't know if it's better or worse than 6. Kf1, but after 6. Kxf2 black gets a dangerous attack going with Nxe4+ followed by Qh4. Here's a game I found where Black seems to be the Wilkes-Barre Chess club:

[Event "City corr"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1931.??.??"]
[Round "0"]
[White "Perrine,George H"]
[Black "City Wilkes Barre CC"]
[Result "0-1"]
...[text shortened]... Nxe4+ 7.Kg1 Qh4 8.Qf1 Rf8
9.d3 Nd6 10.Nxd6+ cxd6 11.Qe2 Nd4 12.Qd2 Qg4 0-1

Oh ok, I think I see the main ideas here, but what of 8. g3 ?

Originally posted by aenrko
Oh ok, I think I see the main ideas here, but what of 8. g3 ?

You're right, 8. g3 seems to be by far the most common reply. 8...Nxg3 usually follows, and as far as I can tell white most often elects to capture the rook on h8 rather than the knight on g3.

After that there seems to be a lot of variation (I'm just looking through games on the chessbase site and don't have statistics), and I honestly have no clue who is better, but it certainly isn't smooth sailing for white.

Originally posted by aenrko
Thanks for clearing up why white loses on 6. Kf1 ,

Well, I didn't say that. He might have lost only because of later errors.

A nice game with the traxler, it was all database until his 11th move, the final position is a forced mate. I really like that you can easily go extremly wrong in this line as white:Game 2356516

http://chesskids.com/level2/cl6l5.htm

it's KIDDYPROOF! Too bad it's a half crappy tutorial.

Originally posted by omulcusobolani
A nice game with the traxler, it was all database until his 11th move, the final position is a forced mate. I really like that you can easily go extremly wrong in this line as white:Game 2356516

GREAT GAME!! This is what I want to see more of, sorry I can't reply on all the posts, its late and I'm too tired. Night!