There is a new Chessable course about the Damiano Petroff...that’s 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4?! so we’re having a tournament about it with some real prizes: lichess.org/tournament/RKz3CXyy
Classic consensus is that, with very accurate play, the best Black can hope for is a lost pawn. As MCO-15 annotates it on page 101: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4? 4. Qe2 Qe7 5. Qxe4 d6 6. d4 and Black has lost a pawn.
Recently, there has come out a Chessable course which points out that:
- Black is OK in this line of the Petroff, as long as they play accurately
- There are a lot of lines which are difficult for White to refute over the board
One user on Reddit had access to a 72 core server and analyzed things with Stockfish 15 70 ply deep starting on move 4. Here is the main line Stockfish saw:
Here is the Chessable course:
www.chessable.com/short-sweet-damiano-petroff/course/106443/
I think it’s nice we’re going to a lot of effort to look over this line again. I always considered 3... Nxe4?! a mistake myself, and still remember beating a friend in a casual skittles game who then defended poorly after making the Damiano Petroff move: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4?! 4. Qe2 f6?? 5. Qh5+ g6 6. Nxg6 hxg6 7. Qxg6+ and Black didn’t last very long. After showing that game to my informal chess coach, his line was this: “After 3. Nxe4?! he made one mistake. He couldn’t afford another mistake.”
Classic consensus is that, with very accurate play, the best Black can hope for is a lost pawn. As MCO-15 annotates it on page 101: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4? 4. Qe2 Qe7 5. Qxe4 d6 6. d4 and Black has lost a pawn.
Recently, there has come out a Chessable course which points out that:
- Black is OK in this line of the Petroff, as long as they play accurately
- There are a lot of lines which are difficult for White to refute over the board
One user on Reddit had access to a 72 core server and analyzed things with Stockfish 15 70 ply deep starting on move 4. Here is the main line Stockfish saw:
Here is the Chessable course:
www.chessable.com/short-sweet-damiano-petroff/course/106443/
I think it’s nice we’re going to a lot of effort to look over this line again. I always considered 3... Nxe4?! a mistake myself, and still remember beating a friend in a casual skittles game who then defended poorly after making the Damiano Petroff move: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nxe4?! 4. Qe2 f6?? 5. Qh5+ g6 6. Nxg6 hxg6 7. Qxg6+ and Black didn’t last very long. After showing that game to my informal chess coach, his line was this: “After 3. Nxe4?! he made one mistake. He couldn’t afford another mistake.”
