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31st January 2008, 03:54pm

by Chess_31
Quebec Canada

Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 31

A nice opening trap I set in one of my recent game.

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31st January 2008, 04:18pm

by TonightOnly
Phoenix, AZ United States

Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 1521

This is more of a theme that can arise in many different situations. The lesson is "Don't start pushing wing pawns when your pieces are undeveloped."

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31st January 2008, 04:23pm

by Chess_31
Quebec Canada

Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 31

Yeah but if he would not have taken the knight it would not have happenned that's why I was calling that a trap.

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1st February 2008, 05:37am

by nightdweller
Quezon City Philippines

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 248

well it rarely happen in a game...

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1st February 2008, 11:20am

by KingLeopold
Scottsdale, AZ. United States

Member Since: Oct 2007
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nightdweller wrote: well it rarely happen in a game...

What rarely happens happened and you cannot discount that fact.

I recently won a very short game with a simple trap of threating checkmate. Of course it rarely happens but there is always the exception to every rule.

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1st February 2008, 11:39am

by BILL_5666
Baltimore, Maryland United States

Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 1193

This opening is reminiscent of the Ponziani, except that I thought that 2Nf3 was normal. 2Nf3 is the norm in very many 1e4, e4 openings, and it would have nullified this trap so I don't see it as being something that you can hope to use with any regularity. Rather than this being an opening trap per se I see this as a refutation of not following the addage develop knights before bishops and don't push pawns more than about 3 times in the opening. To be an actual opening trap your moves would have to refute what were (superficially at least) good opening moves.

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20th April 2008, 10:11am

by Tsmag
Bolingbrook United States

Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 19

Nice, but white could have gotten a fine game with Bxf7+!

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