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please post your favorite trap < 20 moves with White. Starting with 1.d4

here any member who has a good opening trap or nice short game with 1.e4 can post here.

you can win so many points with the "double attack". a lot of tactics are linked to attacking two pieces at once. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ the position above is simplified. the purpose is to really isolate what makes tactics click did you solve the puzzle above white to play ? if yes great. if not lets put a picture about the double attack then the first move is easy. 1 Qc8+ the king moves to h7. then with Qc2 you give check and attack the rook. Double Attack ! _____________________________________________________________________________________ How do you win with White in this opening ? . I am sure you spotted this one fast. its all about geometry. a loose piece is on e4, a double attack will win for white Qa4+ is the reason Black cannot gobble the e4 pawn __________________________________________________________________________________________ can you solve this one, White to play again ?

Can we learn from the new star, world chess challenger Gukesh , 17 years old ? of course we can rather than putting a very long analysis of all his Toronto games, lets take a quick and instructive look at how he played with Black against Abasov on move 4, he played h7-h6 a very rare move. What is the point ? 1) get out of theory as soon as possible 2) avoid the annoying Bg5 here's what would be a normal "theory", known "line" ____________________________________________________________________________________ but later on, Gukesh revelated another use of the move 4..h7-h6 The knight on f6 will be attacked by e4-e5, so Nf6-h7 is possible. but why retreat the knight ? well the knight will go back to g5 a PICTURE is WORTH a thousand WORDS !! What can we learn from Gukesh ? Castling right away is not always needed. you are allowed to move a piece several times if you have a purpose. You can replay the entire game, but sometimes its good to focus on one part as opposed to study every move, which may be long and not necessarily useful. DO YOU AGREE ?? Is there another Gukesh Game you saw which you liked ? Feel free to post !