Hi guys, I'm just wondering if there are any playable opening traps out there. Looking for things that will not really hurt you if your opponent does not fall into them. 😕 if those exist.
Originally posted by range blasts Hi guys, I'm just wondering if there are any playable opening traps out there. Looking for things that will not really hurt you if your opponent does not fall into them. 😕 if those exist.
Winning Chess Traps, by Chernev has 300 traps, all lines are playable IMO
Originally posted by range blasts Hi guys, I'm just wondering if there are any playable opening traps out there. Looking for things that will not really hurt you if your opponent does not fall into them. 😕 if those exist.
Originally posted by greenpawn34 [b]Every trap is worth a roll of the dice.
1.e4 d5 2.d4!! the counter trap.
That was my answer to the Scandinavian when I had a brief fling with 1. e4 a few years back. My intention after 1. e4 d5 2. d4 was to transpose into the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, but I never got to test it in a rated game.
Cambridge Springs Defense in the Queen's Gambit declined has traps based on a discovery along the 5th rank when there is a bishop on e3 that make it fun in low level blitz. Any competent 1. d4 player will be well aware of them but it is still a sound opening, Kasparov used it against Karpov in a world championship match and Alekhine used it several times against Capablanca in their match.
The "?" for white was what the computer thought of the moves when I tried it on the comp back in the day when I had one of the beasts.
Didn't stop me from winning lots of blitz games with it vs the humans:-)