This forum is all about trapping pieces. Please feel free to use this forum as a spot to post your games where you managed to trap one of your opponent's pieces! Or to bemoan the fact that you fell into a trap that lost a piece.

What am I providing? In short, I am initiating a new set of blogs that is focusing on Kings. In the series I will be covering numerous standard mating patterns. Each week I intend to introduce a new mating pattern with a very brief history of the origin of the pattern, a few diagrams that offer the basic mechanics of the mating pattern, and then a series of puzzles. The puzzles will start out easy and gradually get more difficult. I will try to ensure there are at least eight puzzles in each blog and no more than fifteen so that no single blog takes up too much of your time. Week One of the new series will start with Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Anastasia's Mate to be posted in the evening of 23 Feb 2024.

Below I have provided a list, arranged by piece type, of all blogs I have produced to date on trapping various pieces along with some miscellaneous topics. Each week I will update the list with the most recent blog or blogs.

I hope this offers a useful tool for anyone looking for information on standard piece and pawn configurations that suggest a piece entrapment is likely.

Regards,
Kevin

King
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Boden Configuration - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Epaulette Configuration - Chess.com

Queen
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knights and Foot Soldiers Hunting Her Majesty - Chess.com

Rook
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Fianchettoed Rook - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Said the Spider to the Fly - Chess.com

Bishop
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Bishop Dominated by Pawns Part 1 of 5 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Bishop Dominated by Pawns Part 2 of 5 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Bishop Dominated by Pawns Part 3 of 5 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Bishop Dominated by Pawns Part 4 of 5 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Bishop Dominated by Pawns Part 5 of 5 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Bishop Dominated by Rook + Pawn - Chess.com

Knight
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by Bishop + Pawn - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by Bishop, Knight and King - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by Rook Part 1 of 2 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by Rook Part 2 of 2 - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by Knight - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by Pawns - Chess.com
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: Knight Trapped by King + Piece - Chess.com

Games
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: A Beautiful Loss - Chess.com

Miscellaneous
Secrets of Trapping Pieces: My Experience Writing a Chess Book - Chess.com

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