Originally posted by EmLasker just an ordinary trap
It's not even a trap - just not paying attention to your opponent's immediate threats. Looks like something I'd do in a momentary lapse of concentration. 😞
Originally posted by greenpawn34 But considering the gulf between the players and idea behind g4.
Can you not see the humour of it all?
You guys have been playing endings too long.
Surely the French defense version of this trap is better - White is playing sensible moves, and Black gets too eager to eat the d4 pawn, rather than this game, in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
Originally posted by SwissGambit Surely the French defense version of this trap is better - White is playing sensible moves, and Black gets too eager to eat the d4 pawn, rather than this game, in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
... in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
But that's it - a roll of the dice - a gamble, why else was g4 played?
The joy it must have given the White player.
One thing you safely say about Palynka - he does not use a box 😉
Originally posted by greenpawn34 ... in which 16.g4? is a weakening move in a bad position.
But that's it - a roll of the dice - a gamble, why else was g4 played?
The joy it must have given the White player.
One thing you safely say about Palynka - he does [b]not use a box 😉[/b]
Admittedly, if White does not unbalance the position in some fashion, he will lose thanks to the 2-pawn deficit. From that perspective, he might as well give g4 a try.
Originally posted by greenpawn34 I stumbled across this.
I would loved to have seen Black's face when he saw 17.Bxh7+
It's a wonderful trap that White played for. A classic.
I know exactly what black was thinking -- I had a game against Dattu where a similar thing happened - except in my game it happened at the end of a series of exchanges that I thought would end up evenly - and suddenly there was this BxPch and I was thinking "what kind of weird sacrifice is this?" and soon after I realized that it was time to resign.
in short, beware situations where your opponent has a piece in between the queens, and where your queen doesn't have any backup -- this is probably a relatively common "trap"
Here's me loosing to a 13xx player (rated lower currently) in a rather uneventful game. I sucked, he deserves the win. It was one of those things where you immediately see your queen being attacked but you decide to consider other moves instead. By the end of it all you make a move and forget that originally your queen was under attack.
That'll show me
A 1297 beats Palynka 1736 - hilarious.
19 Mar '09 21:17
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