Nice post !
I now have another reason why to stick to the choice of 4.Qd1 in such opening.
Center Game Trap (for black)
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i think if white plays the center game more like the center counter game (the scandinavian, an opening i study extensively) this trap won't work
May 5, 2013
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White should play the Danish Gambit so he doesn't lose tempos by moving his queen around.
nice, i have a quick question guys. How do you move a pawn?
grandmasterCHESSX500 wrote:
nice, i have a quick question guys. How do you move a pawn?
go to advanced section
Nov 11, 2014
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grandmasterCHESSX500 wrote:
nice, i have a quick question guys. How do you move a pawn?
Backwards
Aug 28, 2017
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grandmasterCHESSX500 wrote:
nice, i have a quick question guys. How do you move a pawn?
With your hand is the normal method. 
Just out of interest, why didn't white play the more logical 8. Qe2? And why did white play such a terrible opening in the first place??
Aug 28, 2017
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Karnakatz wrote:
grandmasterCHESSX500 wrote:
nice, i have a quick question guys. How do you move a pawn?
With your hand is the normal method.
Some people are pretty clever with their feet..
Jun 26, 2018
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I was afraid to see another trap like this :
Which of course never happens...
Same as the game showed here, although Bxf2 with 2 forks possible next (Nxe4 or Nd3) is a useful pattern to know.
But indeed, all this is unlikely to occur, everyone plays for Nc3-Bd2...
Why should white play such an idiotic opening? Has it ever been played in serious chess by a GM? It's the sort of thing that beginners do in blitz on Chess.com.
It has been played all the way up to the 6th move by white by 2000s in 2004
here's another trap
Center game trap for black
Oct 19, 2025
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Arashi_ryuma wrote:
Center game trap for black
This is extremly unlikly to happen
ZporeSuperMaster wrote:
Hello fellow smart chess.com members, I want you to look at this trap for black from the Center Game Opening: Of course you are unlikely to run into this exact position, but it does hold a pretty common type of sacrifice in grandmasters game, I'm sure you'll learn from this. White's mistake was blocking the black bishop check with a pawn, (he should have blocked with a bishop, because the pawn was defending an important forking square):
Summary: Watch the game, read the description here, and comment please!
Maybe just never play such an appallingly bad opening as white?
Hello fellow smart chess.com members, I want you to look at this trap for black from the Center Game Opening: Of course you are unlikely to run into this exact position, but it does hold a pretty common type of sacrifice in grandmasters game, I'm sure you'll learn from this. White's mistake was blocking the black bishop check with a pawn, (he should have blocked with a bishop, because the pawn was defending an important forking square):
Summary: Watch the game, read the description here, and comment please!