really nice trap I found today in a caro kann exchange. Black goes down a pawn but gets a huge initiative. The rook lift comes with tempo, very forcing
Really nice opening trap caro kann exchange
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trw0311
16 days ago
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It’s not much of an opening trap, it looks more like the middlegame
15 days ago
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Matthew11235813 wrote:
It’s not much of an opening trap, it looks more like the middlegame
Kind of, I mean the setup is in the opening with bxf3. Queens are both still on the board as well. Black has a better position, is down a pawn, but has an advantage due to whites cracked open king. White doesn’t have great ways to stop blacks queen from getting on the kingside and causing huge issues. Whites queen is easily tempo’d into allowing black to develop for free. He would’ve been better off leaving his bishop on the kingside to play defense until the position becomes stable, then attempt to trade down to a winning endgame although black has that nice Carlsbad structure. I guess the trap is just a slight positional one in the opening that allows for nice follow up. Less passive than attempting to defend the knight on f6 leading to thematic slow games in the caro exchange .
15 days ago
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Is the trap white getting absoluetely destroyed for 5 seconds or am I missing something. As white against the caro Hikaru recommends this system. E4 c6 d4 d5 exd5 cxd5 Bd3 Nc6 Nf3 Bg4 Bg5 Bd6 Nd2 O-O f3 and if Rc8 the f3 pawn blocks the file.
15 days ago
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Josh11live wrote:
Is the trap white getting absoluetely destroyed for 5 seconds or am I missing something. As white against the caro Hikaru recommends this system. E4 c6 d4 d5 exd5 cxd5 Bd3 Nc6 Nf3 Bg4 Bg5 Bd6 Nd2 O-O f3 and if Rc8 the f3 pawn blocks the file.
The trap is pretty much bxf3. It allows white to execute their capture with check and a pawn in exchange for a weakened white king. It allows black lots of good attacking chances in exchange for the pawn. White was up a pawn but the engine was increasingly hating their position and when they gave up their dark squared bishop they just had no defense
15 days ago
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It’s a trap for who? Black or white because I think it’s just another 600 elo blunder. I didn’t notice it.
15 days ago
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Josh11live wrote:
It’s a trap for who? Black or white because I think it’s just another 600 elo blunder. I didn’t notice it.
I suggest running a game analysis if you can’t see the advantage black has after the trades are done. These types of advantages can be hard to see and are not decisive, but black is favored by the engine even being down a pawn because whites queen is vulnerable to attacks which allow black to develop with tempo, and also white has a badly vulnerable king and doubled pawns. Black can get his queen in front of whites king with check and thus reposition to threaten taking f3 with check. The it’s not easy to swing up a rook like that usually… it takes to long, but since whites queen was there black pretty much gets a few free moves to improve their position. Even though white is up a pawn they have a miserable position… and it seems natural for white to make that exchange and win the pawn, but it puts them in a losing position out of the opening, so I call it a trap.
Josh11live έγραψε:
Is the trap white getting absoluetely destroyed for 5 seconds or am I missing something. As white against the caro Hikaru recommends this system. E4 c6 d4 d5 exd5 cxd5 Bd3 Nc6 Nf3 Bg4 Bg5 Bd6 Nd2 O-O f3 and if Rc8 the f3 pawn blocks the file.
I don't think a player like Hikaru would ever recommend playing illegal moves like Bd6 with a pawn at e7, castling with a knight at g8, and playing f3 which is occupied by a knight.
f3 would be possible if white moved the other knight at d2, but this has the slight drawback of hanging a Queen.
15 days ago
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#7 I mean like I see the eval bar go up and down, but I might not see it because I see a normal mistake.
15 days ago
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#10
I wish I had an analysis board #8 so that my brain won’t malfunction doing blindfold chess. Why is app sooo bad compared to website.
Josh11live έγραψε:
I wish I had an analysis board #8 so that my brain won’t malfunction doing blindfold chess. Why is app sooo bad compared to website.
Stop using this lame excuse.
You can have a board at your mobile by accessing the site via a browser. The app is designed to make playing easier, and nothing more than that.