7 Best Chess Opening Traps

[Music] hi and welcome into the lesson seven best chess opening traps these traps are really easy to learn and therefore you'll be able to apply them in your chess games right away let's begin with the first one it's a trap for black side so you you start playing sicilian defense and then here after those first very common moves you play knight to f6 and here it seems really tempting for white to push his pawn forward at the same time chasing your knight away actually even strong opponents fall into this trap i won a couple games myself just in this way and if white makes that move the move which you provoked the move e5 then you have the double attack queen a5 check with the double attack for opponent's kin and the pawn and therefore after white plays any move to cover his king for instance knight c3 you just grab the pawn and you're a pawn up it's important to notice here that even if your opponent does not fall into the trap and plays normal move for instance knight to c3 then your position is not corrupted the game goes on you can play d6 for instance or develop your knight or make any normal move and therefore the trap that you tried to set didn't harm your position in any way that's also one of the important criteria for the traps that i've chosen for you for this video lesson all right let's go ahead to the next trap here's trap number two this time you're playing white and actually you can execute almost the same trap as we have just observed you start the game with the e4 and after your poland plays c5 there follows knight f3 d6 black is trying to play the niner operation the most popular version of the sudan defense played by fisher kasparov and many other great players here we continue with pawn to c3 preparing potentially the d4 advancement which will build a strong center for you if black tries to counter attack by playing knight f6 then it looks like he's attacking your pawn on e4 and you have to protect it however you can kinda overlook opponent's threat and make a blunder so to speak you play bishop e2 ignoring ponens threat and if your opponent happily grabs the pawn then it enables you to execute a very similar thin double attack queen to a4 which is checked to opponent skin and also attack of opponent's knight once again i specifically i selected those traps that are follow the same tactical motif and therefore for you it will be easier to remember them so just the last trap we observed you were using the same trick for black side and here you use the same trick for white side therefore after black plays any move to cover his kin you just grab the knight and you won the game similar to the previous trap even if your opponent does not capture the poisoned pawn still nothing bad is happening with you if your opponent is aware of the trap and he does anything else like playing knight d7 and now he's threatening to capture your pawn you can simply protect it by playing pawn to d3 and your position is safe everything's fine you're gonna cancel and continue the development of your pieces and everything is just fine we're moving on to the trap number three which you can execute against carrot count defense and this is probably the most powerful trap of all in nhs game at all because here after black goes knight to d7 which is one of the common moves another common way is bishop to f5 those are two most typical moves for black to play here if black chooses the line knight to d7 preparing an advancement of his other knight to f6 then you can prepare a smothered mate by playing queen to e2 and at first it seems that you're just somewhat developing your pieces maybe preparing lawn castling but if your opponent plays what he intended to play with knight to f6 then you've prepared something really powerful which is knight d6 smothered mate and it's made in six moves which is a an extremely rare thing in the game of chess very beautiful position if we take a step back and let's say your opponent is aware of the trap and he does something else so he does not let you execute your threat again you didn't damage your position in any way you'll just continue your development you can go on with knight to f3 develop your bishop somewhere and probably castle long side so the move queen to e2 in a way is even useful for you for instance if your opponent goes pawn to e6 then you can continue with bishop to f4 which prepares two interesting things one thing is that you're ready to go knight d6 which is kind of unpleasant for black because then after trade-off of the opponent's bishop it will be difficult for him to castle also you're preparing castling alongside and all in all your position is very good you can execute a very similar tactical motif in a totally different opening let's have a look it starts with e4 e5 knight three knight c6 bishop c4 and here there's a move knight d4 it's quite a well known trap and yet some players still are unaware and they fall into it at first it looks like just a blunder because the pawn on e5 is left unprotected and it's tempting for a white to grab the pawn but if you do that that really almost loses the game on the spot you have the very powerful reply queen to g5 with a double attack of opponents knight on e5 and the pawn on g2 and then there are a few main moves that that what i can try here the most natural one is knight takes f7 capturing the pawn on the deck in your half a pieces but then you go with queen takes g2 attacking the rook at h1 and if white removes the rook from the dangerous square place rook to f1 then you can capture the pawn on e4 it is check white has to play bishop to e2 and then you continue with knight to r3 as you can see it's a very similar tactical motif the same smothered mate that we have just observed in the previous example let's see what else can happen here after your move knight to d4 if it captures the pawn you go on with queen to g5 and here let's say white still goes knight takes f7 you play queen takes g2 let's see what happens if white instead of moving the rook to f1 that we have just observed what happens if white would take your rook on h8 what happens in this line here still everything super good for you you take whites rook on h1 which is check the only move for white is bishop to f1 then you make another check queen takes e4 once again white has to cover the king then you take a pawn on c2 it is check the key has to go to f1 and then queen h1 checkmate you see that no matter what white tries he is just swept awake entirely and you're winning the game very quickly and you totally destroy white if you wish to know more details about the trap that we have just analyzed you can find the link in the description below the video we have the blog post about it where it cover it's covered in greater details and let's move on to another trap where once again the similar tactical motif can be executed and this time it's also a somewhat even more typical thing for black to play because here after bishop to c4 instead of going that little bit dubious move knight d4 you can just continue with knight f6 the very classical line and after white continues with knight g5 attacking your epsilon square you continue with d5 and after pawn takes d5 instead of other moves like knight a5 you have a tricky move knight to d4 and at first sight it's really tempting for white to go on and execute his threat to f7 square which he was trying to impose by his previous moves and white can just push the pawn to d6 however it's actually a mistake for white because after queen takes d6 and white grabs happily the pawn on f7 hopefully hoping that he's winning the game but it kind of lets you execute the same trick that we have already observed you play queen to c6 with an attack of opponents bishop on c4 and pawn on g2 and by the way the bishop from c4 cannot just go away because also the knight of f7 must be protected the fight captures the rook on h8 then you play queen takes g2 and this is something very well known for you by now you're attacking the rook and once white plays rook to f1 you continue with queen e4 jack and after bishop e2 it's a smothered mate knight f3 let's analyze one more line which may happen in this variation right goes knight g5 you continue with d5 and then this tricky move knight to d4 and white tries to execute his threat by playing d6 you capture the pawn and here we have just analyzed the consequences of the move knight takes f7 let's have a look at another time between move bishop takes f7 it looks very good at first sight because it captures the pawn and it attacks your king however after you play king to e7 white suddenly realizes that he doesn't have much pieces developed he has only two pieces developed so far and therefore he can't really execute any serious attack moreover these pieces are currently in danger you're gonna play h6 on the next move and then the white snide cannot go away because the bishop will be lost so white is actually in a big trouble here if he tries to retreat to save his minor pieces and plays something like bishop b3 then you just can take this bishop and then you start kicking away the knight by playing h6 and after knight of three you go forward with e4 the knight has to retreat very much backward to its original square and now even though black is a pawn down but you have a very active position you can move the king to f7 to a more natural square and you have quick development ready you can go with bishop to g4 and you quickly bring the pieces into play and you still have very good and very active position we have already analyzed five typical traps and we have two more let's have a look this one you can use with black against rylo pass which is one of the most common chess openings of all here you play a6 bishop a4 it's still the main line and now instead of knight f6 which is the most typical move you can go pawn to d6 stainless used to play that way the first world champion and let's have a look what can happen here the most aggressively looking move for white is the move pawn to d4 because you see that there is a pin on your knight here and white is trying to execute this pin for instance with his previous move pawn to d4 he's now threatening to play d5 and just winning your knight on the pin however you have prepared something here you go b5 to push the bishop away and after bishop goes back to b3 you just grab the pawn with the knight so far everything looks very good for white but now if white captures the pawn with the queen then he's losing the game on a side note if white does not fall into the trap and does not capture the pawn but is doing something else then you also just continue your development normally play knight to f6 bishop p7 castling very standard moves not nothing fancy and again it's just normal game of chess but what if white captures that pawn and plays queen takes d4 that enables you to play c5 and here's the trick you're gonna execute right now you're attacking white's queen and when the queen goes away you're willing to play pawn to c4 and the white's bishop on b3 is trapped that's your idea that's how you're gonna win the piece that bishop on b3 if white tries to escape by playing queen d5 which seems to be an aggressive move because it attacks your rook on a8 and your pawn to on f7 but there is a way for you to simultaneously protect those two weaknesses by playing bishop to e6 the queen is attacked if white tries to play queen c6 check then you cover it with the bishop and if white goes back queen d5 this time you do not repeat the moves by playing bishop to e6 once again it would be just a repetition but now you can see an important difference by making those maneuver with your bishop you protected your rook with the queen and therefore now it's not a problem for you and you can go on and execute your main threat you can push the pawn to c4 and the bishop is trapped that's how you win the bishop and with this serious material advantage hopefully you'll win the game really easily here comes the last trap of this lesson it starts with white you go with e4 and then it happens if black chooses to place its indian defense and particularly this fascinating configuration which is very popular these days lots of strong players played and of course lots of amateur players repeat this strategy with black and here goes the main starting position of stashnink of defense usually on the next moves black are playing a6 to kick off your knights and then continues with pawn to b5 to expand there and continue chasing away your knight and the main move for white is just to develop a bishop to g5 which is certainly a good option however in addition to that you can do something else you can go with your knight to d5 you have created a very straightforward thread of making fork with your knight going knight to c7 which would double attack opponents king and the rook by the way i've noticed that in blitz games sometimes this threat actually does happen because oftentimes your opponent who plays this fascinating defense you know at this point he was going to play pawn to a6 and often times he pre-moves it or he's just really pushes that pawn to a6 on the next move quickly without evaluating your move really and that's how he can fall into this very straightforward fret of yours but even if your opponent does a better move and grabs the knight then you capture with a pawn and like ghost knight e7 the most natural move you continue with pawn to c4 and here all of a sudden the most natural move for black most natural looking move which is pawn to a6 is losing the rhythm of queen to a4 which pins the pawn on a6 and therefore black cannot really take your knight so he can but it will lose the exchange so you grab the rook and you want the exchange and with the material advantage everything's great for you let's see if there's anything else that he can do but in addition to that in addition to pinning the pawn the queen is also making a very powerful threat along this diagonal on the next move you're gonna move your knight somewhere potentially to csun or maybe to d6 making this discover check of opponent skin with your knight and destroy your opponent's position entirely as surprisingly as it is there is already no good defense for black if he tries to cover this diagonal by playing bishop d7 then it's just knight d6 smothered mate once again we have seen this in some previous traps that we have analyzed if black tries to cover the diagonal by playing queen to d7 then it still doesn't help you can just continue with knight to c7 or knight takes d6 and as you can see the queen cannot capture the knight anyway because it is pinned therefore black has to react to check to go like into d8 but then you can simply grab the pawn on f7 with the double attack of opponents keen and the rook and on the next move for instance in the line like this you just grab the rook and you have these very huge material advantage so you'll win the game easily congratulations you have just learned seven best chess opening traps try it out in your games those traps are both effective easy to learn and in addition to that they're also solid which is a rare quality for a trap so even if it doesn't work your position is still fine try it out in your games and let me know in comments about your results thank you

Channel: Remote Chess Academy

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Keywords: chess, opening, traps, trap, chess openings, sicilian, caro kann, spanish, two knights, checkmate, check, mate, sacrifice, queen, king, bishop, pin, igor, smirnov, best, pgn, grandmaster, analysis, tricks, attack

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Length: 18min 14sec (1094 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 27 2017