Setting up traps

I have a new favorite trap that I really hated falling for. There is nothing more frustrating than losing your queen. When it happened to me while playing the French, my reaction was that is not fair!

Studying the French was fun because of white getting a lot of sac chances if black plays wrong but I don't see too many French games at my level unfortunately.

Yeah and you gotta know when you can and when you can't. The speed at which I play means that I will find out I can't after it messes up. So then I need to look back and see what the difference that totally screwed things up.

@eladar said
I have a new favorite trap that I really hated falling for. There is nothing more frustrating than losing your queen. When it happened to me while playing the French, my reaction was that is not fair!

[pgn]1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. e4 Nb6 5. Nc3 e6 6. a3 Nc6 7. Nf3 Be7{now the trap is possible} 8. e5 {diagonal is opened}
O-O 9. Bd3 {oops did I leave my pawn hangin ...[text shortened]... !}Kxh7 12. Qxd4 Rd8 13. Qe4+ Kg8 14. O-O
c6 15. Qg4 g6 16. Bg5 Bxg5 17. Qxg5 Nc4 18. Qxd8+ *[/pgn]

From a blog a number of years ago.

Peter Svidler is tricked into going for a Queen winning trick like the
one in the first game in this thread. Fits with: 'Setting Up Traps.'

P. Svidler (2495) - P. Malaniuk (2635) St Petersburg, 1993
(the grades are taken from the time the game was played.)

@greenpawn34

And I am saying well why not just take the bishop? Then I noticed that bishop was doing more than just supporting the queen.

I don't know why I glossed over the first sentence lol.

Hi Eladar

And in the last note it should of course be: ' ...Bh7+ wins the Queen.'

What makes this all the more pertinent is that it's a good player who fell for it.

Here's a game where I tried to trap my way out of a bad opening, but unfortunately my opponent was not cooperative. If the trap had worked it would have looked like this (a similar trap is common for black in the queen's gambit declined):

@greenpawn34 said
Hi Eladar

And in the last note it should of course be: ' ...Bh7+ wins the Queen.'

What makes this all the more pertinent is that it's a good player who fell for it.