I'm looking for a good trap book. Any recommendations? Now remember, I'm not looking for a crappy book, only a good one.😛
I play the French against e4 and have started playing Kosten's Dynamic English as White. Against d4 I don't have a defense that I always use. I mention this because doing the google search it seems trap books are based on openings.
correct traps are not located later in the game, they call those tactics. A book of traps is not very usefull. It just shows poor opening play and how to capitalize on it. Usually one can calculate what will happen if they take a piece or move one of their own. There is a book called opening traps and zaps but I've never read it. I think its a waste of time, there are little traps with d4 and much more traps per say for black against e4 because they tend to lead to tactical rich games.
When I was reading the descriptions of a couple of books, people said it was little more than a tacitics book that show how the tactics arise. I'm hoping that this would be educational, both for the openings I play and the openings people use against me!
sorry to be so negative. I have found bruce pandolfinis book called weapons of chess was a very good book when I was at your level. Same goes for the books by yasser seirwan.