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I don't know what trap this is called but punishment for using Queen early, game over in seconds

@congruent said
I don't know what trap this is called but punishment for using Queen early, game over in seconds

@Carnivorum

Just had a nice trap, a Stafford gambit: https://lichess.org/huen69FrX1p8

Unfortunately, it is very well known now, youtubes which speak about this trap have been watched millions of times, but like the saying goes: "There is an unlearned chess player born every minute", so once in a while there is success to be had with the Stafford gambit.

Once in a while I have a mate in 8 with the Stafford gambit, sometimes a mate in 11, this time I came out of the opening with an exchange up, and then the enemy made another mistake which was going to cost him his queen, so he surrendered. On move 14.

I think this qualifies as a miniature. 😀

https://tinyurl.com/Love-trappy-gamb

Here I started with the Zukertort, 1. Nf3, and the enemy was kind enough to answer to that 1 ... d5, which allowed me to play 2. e4, and we had a Tennison gambit on the board: https://lichess.org/ddoT6EsDCsU2
The enemy accepted, but came out with his queen on move 3. No problem, I have a nice trap for that, but unfortunately the enemy refused to fall for the trap.
I offered him my g2 pawn, and if he would accept that pawn, he would lose his castle on a8. Unfortunately, he didn't fall for it. I made some not so good moves, and got into hot water, almost losing a horse, but I managed to save it.

Then with some tactics here and there, I won an exchange, some pawns, and the enemy surrendered.

All is well that ends well. 😀

https://tinyurl.com/bad-chess-day

@Carnivorum

@carnivorum said

Just now I had a nice Stafford gambit.

The enemy fell in the trap, lost his queen, and surrendered on move 10.

Opening traps are so funny!! 😀😀😀

Lol why do you refer to the enemy as the guy you are playing? 🙂

@congruent said
Lol why do you refer to the enemy as the guy you are playing? 🙂

What would you have done if he played pawn to d4?

Got another successful Tennison gambit. I gave the enemy a pawn, then a horse, and relieved him of a castle and two pawns. Good deal for me.

I who played a gambit, gave him a pawn in the opening, ended up with a plus pawn, and an exchange as interest.

He was very lucky not to go mate within 10 moves, because most of the time when my queen is on b7, his bishop on c6, attacking my queen, and my bishop on b5, pinning his bishop on his king, they try to save their castle by defending the bishop with their queen, and that usually leads to a mate in 7 moves in the Englund gambit.
Here it might take a few moves more, because it was a different more complicated gambit.

But I still came out of the opening with serious profit. 😀

Here is an interesting one, it is not so much a trap as a tactic every chess player must know.

After the normal e4-e5, sometimes the enemy plays his king bishop pawn one up to protect his e pawn. And that is bad. Most of the time anyway. Because your horse can then take his e pawn. And when he takes it with his king bishop pawn, all hell will break loose.
He will lose his castle in the corner, or his king is chased all over the board, and usually ends up being mated.

Great trick to know.

Just one word of caution: The e file where your king is, must be closed off before your horse smacks in on his e pawn, because otherwise the trick won't work.
Therefore I first played Be6 before I took his e pawn.
If that bishop would not have closed off the e file, then when his queen came to e2, it would have pinned my queen on my king, and I would not have been able to take the castle in the corner, and I would have wasted a horse for nothing.

Keep that in mind.

Another innocent victim fell prey to the Stafford gambit. He did all the right things, he blocked my black squared bishop, but alas, it was not enough.

I sacrificed a horse to rip open his king side where he had castled, then he sacced a bishop, and when then on move 16 he moved his castle to save it from my bishop, then I had a mate in 6, according to Stockfish. Three of those moves were useless moves giving away material in order to delay the mate.
I don't think I would have seen that, but I sure would have made his life miserable.
But that was not necessary, because when my bishop opened up the h file, where I had a battery with queen backed up by a castle, and my bishop in the same move attacked his queen, the enemy surrendered. 😀

@carnivorum said
Another innocent victim fell prey to the Stafford gambit. He did all the right things, he blocked my black squared bishop, but alas, it was not enough.

I sacrificed a horse to rip open his king side where he had castled, then he sacced a bishop, and when then on move 16 he moved his castle to save it from my bishop, then I had a mate in 6, according to Stockfish. Th ...[text shortened]... . Bh3 Bxh3 15. g3 Qh7 16. Re1 Bg4 { White resigns. } 0-1 [/pgn]

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-deadly

@carnivorum said
Another innocent victim fell prey to the Stafford gambit. He did all the right things, he blocked my black squared bishop, but alas, it was not enough.

I sacrificed a horse to rip open his king side where he had castled, then he sacced a bishop, and when then on move 16 he moved his castle to save it from my bishop, then I had a mate in 6, according to Stockfish. Th ...[text shortened]... . Bh3 Bxh3 15. g3 Qh7 16. Re1 Bg4 { White resigns. } 0-1 [/pgn]

https://tinyurl.com/Staff-deadly

9. Nd2 developing move then .. Ng4
10. d4 Bd6
11. e5 Be7
12. h3