An opening trap is a short route to a win through the opponent's mistake. Do you love tactics and want to punish inaccuracies as early as move 4 to 6? Then this is for you: we have gathered the most famous traps, the ones that work at club level and in blitz.
Every trap is worth knowing from both sides: to set it, and to avoid walking into it yourself. You can see the trap position on the board straight away, and open the full line on the page of the opening it lives in.
A trap is a bonus, not a plan for the game: relying on your opponent's mistake alone is dangerous. Know the traps so that you can punish blunders and avoid walking into them, but build the game on healthy development - then the tactics will come by themselves.
It is a prepared line in which a natural-looking move by your opponent loses to tactics as early as the opening. Knowing traps is useful from both sides: to set them and to avoid them.
No. Against an attentive opponent a trap will not work, and you can be left with the worse position. A trap is a pleasant bonus on top of healthy development, not the basis of a strategy.
The «Fried Liver» in the Two Knights Defence - the knight sacrifice 6.Nxf7 with a crushing attack on a king stuck in the centre. Every tactics lover knows it.
If you are just starting out, have a look at the rules of chess and how to set the board up.
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Vibe Chess runs chess meetups - networking evenings in cities across Russia: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and more. For companies we run corporate chess tournaments, and every city and format is gathered on the home page.
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