Originally posted by vivify
I really would like to learn some traps. So show me some that you've actually done in your games. If your trap is a well-known trap, please tell me the name of it.
Here's my most recent, as white.
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[Result "*"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 4.Bxc4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 ...[text shortened]... a4+ Qd7 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 {Black takes the free bishop.} 8.Nxe5+ { Black resigns. }
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Originally posted by SwissGambitI may have phrased my question wrong, because it seems you may believe I didn't think your trap wasn't great to watch. I enjoyed how you broke his control of the middle. Let me try again.
All traps involve bad play from the opponent.
In the game you posted, was white's downfall more of a matter of deviating from theory? I think (correct me if I'm wrong) he used the "Dragon" opening. Were white's lines in the "Dragon" opening (if that's what it's called) incorrect lines, that lead to you destroying his center?
Originally posted by vivifyBlack's setup in this opening is similar to the Dragon, but the Dragon arises from 1.e4 c5 (the Sicilian Defense, of which the Dragon is one variation), whereas this opening is called the Pirc Defense (1.e4 d6).
I may have phrased my question wrong, because it seems you may believe I didn't think your trap wasn't great to watch. I enjoyed how you broke his control of the middle. Let me try again.
In the game you posted, was white's downfall more of a matter of deviating from theory? I think (correct me if I'm wrong) he used the "Dragon" opening. Were white's ...[text shortened]... (if that's what it's called) incorrect lines, that lead to you destroying his center?
White's problems arose from his failure to be alert. Even after 6.dxc5 Qa5, it is not too late to turn back. Most of my opponents play this:
It is an opening trap or a trick that just happens to be in the position?
SG quite rightly posted:
"All traps involve bad play from the opponent."
But a genuine Opening Trap must involve an element of risk from the trap setter.
All the examples so far are coming from natural moves. If the vic does not
blunder into the trick then no harm done.
Here is a real opening trap. I've caught quite a few with this in blitz and OTB.
Try it, you will catch someone but if it fails to induce a blunder (6...Nxe4) then
you have nothing except a miserble game to look forward too.
Since I have returned to OTB chess I have fallen victum to several opening traps. However, I don't like showing them because they make me look stupid.
But the following game is one in which I came up with what I think might be an opening trap in a 45 minute game at the chess club in Evans, Georgia recently. I was playing an old guy, who had just come back to chess after a long layoff just like me. His name is Ed and he was never as good as me and is someone I have been able to beat up on. He was rated in the upper 1300s when he first started playing Here but has fallen to the mid 1200s after I got a hold of him. Here is the game:
RJHinds vs Harry E. Stewart