Setting Traps...

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on move 4 i had his queen trapped

Originally posted by 7ate9
I realise most people do not consider setting traps in a game of chess good, because it wouldn't work against the top players in the world, people think they will become.LOL. I am never going to be a top player in chess, but play for enjoyment where setting traps is a part of this when playing against opponents who basically aren't that good anyway.

If you ...[text shortened]... setting traps or God just makes it happen, then don't be shy to post. I'd love to see it...

That's not technically true. Top players set traps all the time, the difference is that they don't expect their opponent to fall for it. Generally speaking, escaping from a potential trap often means you have to make a move you otherwise wouldn't have chosen. When you are forced to make a move like this, your opponent has at least won a tempo, and at best has forced you to position a piece in an inferior position. If you want to improve, you must analyse the outcome of a trap with best play. If your opponent comes out of the whole thing worse than you, then you have achieved an advantage. Strong players accumulate small advantages like this. Over the course of a game, these small advantages become greater until the position ultimately becomes winning...If their opponent does not achieve best play, then they win material.

I don't understand the trap. If he moves queen to g6 (or somewhere else), what do you do?

Damn it! I need a larger database, if someone has it Palciauskas vs Andriulaitis, Sicilian Velimirovic Attack game is sooooo what this thread needs. Its a correspondence game too. Just miiiiiinnnndddd blowing chess with traps all over the place.

If someone has it could they please put it up?

Thanks.

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If the choice of 2 moves is presented to you:

a) something which complicates the position (but with accurate play loses)

or

B) safe (even with best play) but gains little.


---if the trap in (A) is a sophisticated one, you are propably better off playing that moves, especailly in blitz.

GM's set traps all the time but their intent is not for their opponent to fall into it their intent is to force them into that trap.

Traps are fine as long as you don't base your whole game around them and compromise your position to set them.

Game 2230972

It was nice to get a cheap one against a higher rated player, and in a tournament game no less. Too bad he paid me back by crushing me in the other game. :'(

Game 2301285

I was excessively proud of the way I got his queen in this game.

Did anybody look at the game? Why is his queen trapped on move 4?

Originally posted by buddy2
Did anybody look at the game? Why is his queen trapped on move 4?

It isnt 😛

sometimes traps pay off...

even higher rated player fall for them...

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EDIT: I too am also prone to traps :-(

Originally posted by Bedlam
Damn it! I need a larger database, if someone has it Palciauskas vs Andriulaitis, Sicilian Velimirovic Attack game is sooooo what this thread needs. Its a correspondence game too. Just miiiiiinnnndddd blowing chess with traps all over the place.

If someone has it could they please put it up?

Thanks.

Try Kasparov v Topalov, can't remember the year/event. Kapa sites it as his greatest game. THAT is one serious game!!! It is the closest to chess perfection i have ever seen... 😉