According to today’s Chess Cafe’ column, Gary Lane says that Sam Sloan’s pet Damiano Defense is refuted. Apparently the key move is 9.Bxb7. Lane even cites a game of Sloan’s.
Alex Relyea
This refutation is probably as old as Damiano! It provides a nice exercise for kids to broaden their imaginations and teach them lessons about proper development of the pieces. They love to hunt the king down on an open board.
Expect a lawsuit to be tendered against Gary Lane and Chess Cafe 
Wow! That article makes it really hard to follow the variations. I had to paste it into a text editor and add my own line breaks and indentation.
Not a defense I’d ever use, but I want to know how to beat it efficiently.