The Traxler Counterattack

Chess's purest 'attack-and-be-attacked' adventure, for Black. After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5, instead of defending f7 Black plays 4...Bc5!? and answers the threat to his king with an even faster attack on White's. The 6.Kxf2 line walks into a famous forced mate; the critical 6.Kf1 leads to dynamic equality with raging compensation. A fearless tactical weapon. This course doubles as a worked example of a hand-crafted Chessadence course — use it as inspiration for building and publishing your own!