What the hell is a 'Queen trap'?
Queen Traps?
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Where you trap the queen. and they cant escape it <3
Even Gendalf lost to a queen trap in the last world championship!
Grandmasters should never fall for Queen Traps in standard tournament games, otherwise they never thought out the move properly. OR they could sacrifice their queen, like in a grandmaster game I saw, I forgot who it was.
plutonia wrote:
Even Gendalf lost to a queen trap in the last world championship!
Wasn't that Lord of the Rings?
Idk, lord of the rings is Gandalf. but i suppose it is.
Lol nice retifan. And anthony, it IS dangerous when it's the opening game, since you need a light squared bishop the guard the vital spot the queen can move to. It can also be guarded by the Queen though.
Ahah, I meant to say Gelfand, not Gendalf :P
Who is winning after 6...Be7?
White wins by overloading the Black Q.
Just had # 12 in TT a few mins ago :)
Another trapped Queen. This time, Black was Sammy Reshevsky, one of America's greatest grandmasters.
I beat a WGM in bullet with a queen trap.
Here are two from blitz games I had a long time ago:
And here is a very nice trap from a blitz game around the same time:
I'm afraid I don't have the rest of this game though.
doduobird123 wrote:
#15, can't black play king takes knight instead of pxn?
This is in regard to Fischer-Reshevsky.
Yes, the King can take the N instead of lose the Queen. This leaves the great question, why would a strong Grandmaster not play Kxe6?
Rather than tell you the answer, I think it's more fun to work it out. And I suspect you already have based on post #22.
Thanks for the good games... But I still don't believe grandmasters should be falling for 5-move-ahead queen traps tho.
Hey everybody! I would like to talk about Queen Traps. I know, normally in competetive standard games you don't fall for queen traps, but sometimes, material gets the better of you. Most of the time, Queen traps is in lightning chess, or your opponent blundered.
BUT THE THING IS:
Are Queen Traps easy to spot? In many games, I overlook a Queen trap and take a pawn instead. Could some people share games where you overlooked a queen trap, or a series of forced moves that create a queen trap, or setup a common position where a queen could be trapped for a pawn? Please share your thoughts on this idea.