Show me your rarest opening trap

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Please don't post common traps like the fried liver

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I was able to do this trap once in chess. I actually rarely play e5 against e4, so people at my level might have did it more than once.

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my favourite line in any opening, stockfish gives about +2 or 3

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There is no use in focusing on traps.

Traps are crap!  You are completely wasting your time focusing on garbage that nobody will fall for.

And even if the trap is not memorized, any clown with half a brain can figure out not to take the pawn in the Milner barry.

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a lot of people fall for it because it’s not immediately obvious why Nc6 loses, and why not block an attack with the queen by developing? That’s what we’re taught to do against early queen attacks, no?

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Blackburn-Shilling Gambit. Interestingly enough, I wouldn’t consider it a real gambit, since the best move is to take the knight, not the free pawn.

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After Nxe5 Qg5, engine gives -0.7 advantage to black.

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InsertInterestingNameHere wrote:

After Nxe5 Qg5, engine gives -0.7 advantage to black.

So even after accepting the gambit black doesn't get a significant advantage

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Getting any kind of advantage at all is rare for black. White usually gets the upper hand in every sound opening, so I’d consider it a plus.

After Nd4 though, engine gives +1.3 after Nxd4, exf4, d3, because you’ve wasted a tempo moving your knight twice.

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Haha "white gets the upper hand in every sound opening" that's why I play b5 against 1.e4.

 

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Are you a Lila Attack player?

 

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OranegJuice wrote:

Haha "white gets the upper hand in every sound opening" that's why I play b5 against 1.e4.

 

3 hours later at 4am I realized I missed the joke. Feeling disappointed in myself.

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I don’t have a rare opening trap but I do have a rare checkmate well I think it is

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Rose-chan wrote:

I don’t have a rare opening trap but I do have a rare checkmate well I think it is

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Argh not neon

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What’s wrong with neon 

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