Show me your traps.

This is a trap in the Fritz variation of the 2 Knights Defence. I taught it to my children who have pulled it off a few times but I've never caught anyone with it other than in a blitz game.

Not a true trap as black risks nothing. It's more of a white blunder

Originally posted by kingshill
This is a trap in the Fritz variation of the 2 Knights Defence. I taught it to my children who have pulled it off a few times but I've never caught anyone with it other than in a blitz game.

Not a true trap as black risks nothing. It's more of a white blunder

[pgn]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nf6
4. Ng5 d5
5. exd5 Nd4 { Fritz Variatio ...[text shortened]... Qe4+ { Father of white arrives to see the finish and console his son }
10. Be2 Nf3

[/pgn]

Originally posted by kingshill
This is a trap in the Fritz variation of the 2 Knights Defence. I taught it to my children who have pulled it off a few times but I've never caught anyone with it other than in a blitz game.

Not a true trap as black risks nothing. It's more of a white blunder

[pgn]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nf6
4. Ng5 d5
5. exd5 Nd4 { Fritz Variatio ...[text shortened]... Qe4+ { Father of white arrives to see the finish and console his son }
10. Be2 Nf3

[/pgn]

This is a trap in the Queen's Gambit Declined Albin Counter Gambit Variation.

The Jim River trap

http://www.jimriver-traps.com/

Originally posted by 64squaresofpain
The Jim River trap

http://www.jimriver-traps.com/

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Now that is a true trap. Well done.

Originally posted by RJHinds
True, however, vivify was referring to Chess traps, not animal traps. 😏

The Jim River Bear Trap.

The coincidences in the names make this worth showing.

reddhotpawn - grizzlybare RHP 2005

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
May Brian Wall have mercy on your soul. 😞

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Originally posted by RJHinds
But the Fishing Pole Trap refers to a trap to catch a chess player not an animal. 😏

Though not an opening trap this trap is good and instructive.

It's a genuine trap because it carries a risk.
The risk can be positional or material, but a pure chess trap means you
have shunned better moves to set your trap.

Good moves that carry hidden threats are not traps. They are good moves.
The only real justification for playing a genuine trap is if you are losing.
However, having written that it won't stop me from setting traps
(because I'm good at it. 😉) and, more to the point, I enjoy it.

In the following game White should have lost a piece in setting his trap,
instead he wins a Queen. He has trap-setters luck (there is such a thing)
I predict a bright future for this lad.

TK80 - BIGBADBOB1 RHP 2012

After 1: e4 c5?? 2: d4! cxd4 3: c3 dxc3 4: Nxc3 Nc6 5: Nf3 d6 6: Bc4, the best move is a6!. The reason is that:
6: .. Nf6?! 7: e5! Nxe5?? (7: .. dxe5 8: Qxd8 with a slight white edge based on the initiative. A funny variation is 8: .. Nxd8 9: Nb5 Kd7?? 10: Nxe5+ Ke8 11: Nc7🙄 8: Nxe5 dxe5 9: Bxf7+! winning the queen.