Giuoco Piano Trap

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NJCat

Thoughts? Is this a well known trap, or just an uncommon blunder? Critiques welcome.

Donaldtrumpchesssg

The idea 8.Qc1 9.Qxh6 doesn't work against strong players and makes the black position looked better.

MichalMalkowski

In fact it is a well known attacking motive - to sacrifice a bishop on h6 ( h3) followed by queen taking on h6. It is a principle, that if you can exchange your light piece of two pawns and initiative, then sacrifice is sound. I often aim for this trick, hower many players know it and counter it with Kh7.

 

Here the attack  also nicely uses another, less known motive (albait also a subject of an article on this site - search for "an ugly castle") - to purposivly allow one kings position to be damaged, in order to open the g line for rook and for an attack. A risky decision, I usually don't aim for it, but few times it worked wonders for me. Pinning a knight to queen can be very double enged as seen here.

 

So no, the game was not a well known trap, but instead a use of well known attacking techniques.

blueemu