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Chess Openings | Brilliant TRAPS for White Against Scandinavian Defense

Chess Openings | Brilliant TRAPS for White Against Scandinavian Defense

Angelo-Kesaris
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Chess Article on Scandinavian Defense : https://www.rules-chess-strategies.com/en/chess-blog/chess-openings-scandinavian-defense 

Chess Course n Scandinavian Defense : https://www.rules-chess-strategies.com/en/e-shop/product/127-scandinavian 

Professional Chess Trainer Angelo Kesaris is here with you again and in this video lesson will share with you some new, interesting, and brilliant chess opening traps against the Scandinavian Defense. You can use these traps with White chess pieces. The Scandinavian Defense (or Center Counter Defense, or Center Counter Game) is characterized by the moves: 1.e4 d5.

It is one of the most solid and played chess openings for Black (up to 2000 ELO). You are welcome to take a look into my complete Opening Laboratory: https://www.rules-chess-strategies.com/en/all-course/product/127-scandinavian 

The general goal for Black is exchange one pair of central pawns and then create a very solid position. Black would like to build a strong pawn structure.

From this video lesson, you will learn how to punish your opponent's mistakes and Angelo will provides to you traps from both mainlines 2...Qxd5 and 2...Nf6. Watch and learn the traps that involve some brilliant sacrifices!

121 || Chess Legent | Mikhail Tal's EPIC TRAP in the Sicilian Defense !

The professional chess trainer Angelo Kesaris will shows you the most elegant and sophisticated chess trap of all time played by none other Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga! It is a game, Tal, playing with the White chess pieces the Sicilian Defense. The enemy king is in the center of the board and manage to demolish his defensive set up.

Almost all of the Tal's pieces attacked the Black's king, and all of the Black's pieces were passively defending him. It was in this moment Tal had to find a way to breakthrough and open up the Black's center. He did that by sacrificing his pieces; one of his usual tactical techniques.

It was ingenious of Tal to set an unbelievable trap that even Stockfish wasn't planning on this kind of a move. Tal's opponent tried to set an a deadly trap by himself, but Tal foreseen it and eventually won the tough battle that was full of amazing and unbelievably crazy moves!