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.
@eladarsaid 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!
[FEN "r1bqr1k1/p4pp1/3b1n1p/3p4/N6B/3B4/PP3PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - - 0 15"] 15. Nc3 Be5 {A cunning trap based on the Black Queen being undefended when it comes to d5.} 16. Nxd5 Qxd5 17. Bxf6 {White thinks they have won back their piece. as Bxf6 Bh2+ wins the Queen.} 17... Bb7 {Protects the Queen and threatens mate on g2. White is a piece down and resigned.}
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):
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.
You told me of another good player who fell for it, but then went on and on about how he really did not make that move and wanted to reset the board so he could undo the mistake.
Setting up traps
09 May '20 04:39
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