Does anyone know of any good traps i could try because my friend and i always play otb games and i know a few traps but he knows countertraps to them so does anyone have any ideas?

Download my miniatures on the downloads page.  There are thousands there.  You can't guarantee someone will fall for one, but you may guarantee that you won't.  Hardly anyone loses the same way twcie, once they see the pattern.  Also, you would have to know the opening the player plays and guide your studies to that opening or try to play an opening he is not familiar with.

billwall is the TRAPS king! :)

I've been going through Mr. Wall's King's Gambit download for the past several days (and so far, I'm only looking at the games where white wins).  It's an excellent collection of games cut short by surprising tactical strokes. Not only is it educational, but its truly fun playing through these games!

Dear Bill, the proclaimed "Traps King";

I downloaded your"4500 Chess Miniatures" file and got a .zip folder with a .pgn file in it. Excuse my computer ineptness, but I don't know what to do with either of these file types. Any help would be appreciated. How do I actually see the games?!

a .zip file is a compressed file (a large file made smaller in size for storage and faster downloading). A .zip file must be decompressed or the files within must be extracted. Since you have a folder with the pgn, this seems to have been done automatically for you, which sometimes happens.

the .pgn file within stands for "portable game notation." It's one of the standards for storing games, usually for viewing. The .pgn file that you have contains probably 500 games.

If you have a chess program, it's possible that your program can open the file. If not, you'll need a small additional  viewing program which can be found for free all over the web. While there are many different programs for viewing chess games, my favorite one can be found in the download area of this site: http://www.chess.com/download/view/winboard-427

 

Anyway, good luck.

tonightonly,

You should have a program that unzips a zip file.  It comes by defualt oj XP and Vista machines and there are dozens of free programs that will uncompress the zip file.  It's compressed because of the size.  Once you uncompress it, the file will end in .pgn instead of .zip.  You can open it up with any text editor and see the moves and games.  However, there are lots of free programs that read pgn files (see batgirl's artilce and link).  You could rename it or copy it can call it some_name.txt and read it as a text file as well.  Chess programs such as ChessBase or Chess Assistant read pgn file among others.

hi batgirl.thank for giving me King's Gambit.can u give me many games in queens gambit declined.i will see sharp at 2 o clock(gmt).please

There are a few collections of games on the download page

The King's Gambit file was created by Bill Wall, so thank him, not me. While there is no Queen's-Gambit-specific file, there is one containing 300 various chess miniatures and one containing 1,400 super-miniatures that might prove just a interesting and useful.

billwall wrote: ...  Hardly anyone loses the same way twcie,... 

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hmmm, Bill have you seen me play?

i have 200+ games of Dutch in one of my books. when i fully learned to use this site hope i can post them and let us all study the games.