Opening Puzzles.

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Hello. Here I will post puzzles of common openings and traps to test your theoretical knowledge. Feel free to post some of your own.

I will start with this famous trap from the Fried Liver. Hopefully everyone knows this!



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This one is easy but I'm sure you got some others under your belt... And it's always good to review your classics.

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Here's another

pretty easy as well

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This is the Black-Burn Shilling gambit. Correct?

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ChessHistoryRocks wrote:

This is the Black-Burn Shilling gambit. Correct?

Yep very dubious but weird.

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Also just losing if white know what they are doing. I do like some of these quirky, weird gambits.

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Here is another devastating variation from the Deffered Wing Gambit. 

 

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Did anyone get it right? This one is crazy.

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i did, took me a while though and lots of attempts

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Here is opening trap after Damiano Defense, e4 e5 Nf3 f6 Nxe5 fxe5.

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Here is a trap in the Russian, shown to me by CHR, who asked me to post it for him because he's too lazy...

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This is from a game played by Vishy Anand as black. This is the shortest game in his career.