1. It's not a trap.
2. It's not even a good tactic, if white plays 14 Bd5 you are just a piece down.
1. It's not a trap.
2. It's not even a good tactic, if white plays 14 Bd5 you are just a piece down.
Thank you, all I need to need to know. All I want to know if it was a good tactic to use on weaker/greedy players. And as for the rating part, this was online, so accuracy of rating is not solid. A stronger player would have seen Bd5 like Ray_brooks said, but he played the greedy path. All I want on opinions on fashioning a combination that works on those who keeps capturing over tactics, and if the one I played in this game was a good start.
Am3692> All I want to know if it was a good tactic to use on weaker/greedy players
Against weaker players, you don't need risky traps, and against an equal or better player 12...Rb8 is a poor move since there are many ways White could have gained a big material advantage. Eg, 13.Bxc6 Bxh3 14.gxh3 bxc6 15.Rxb8 Qxb8 16.Bxe7 +-.
I was playing online against someone clearly weaker, but I wondering if this was a good trap to play against greedy players...
If you have the free time, please visit my blog to view my other games that could be considered a waste of space/chess thinking, so I don't bother positing it to the forum...
EDIT: Benws pointed out that this is not a trap, which I didn't know the terminology then, but this is hope chess, that happened to work. Thanks for all the comments (the useful ones) so far, since I am going to practice more and hopefully play better with the info I learned