- One of my favorites. It is super hard to convert though.
Show me your rarest opening trap
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swarminglocusts
Apr 24, 2022
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#21
A trap I came up with in the Exchange Hillbilly Attack.
“””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.”””
Rhetorical question, but, WHO asked?
Traps are crap! You are completely wasting your time focusing on garbage that nobody will fall for.”””
Rhetorical question, but, WHO asked?
Only reason I say that is because trying to shut down forum posts and not letting people have fun sharing knowledge and letting others in on little secrets, no matter how obscure, ruins the fun of doing so.
Apr 24, 2022
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#25
My opponent trapped me in the Alekhine's Defense, so I trapped them back in the Botez Gambit!
Apr 24, 2022
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#26
It's better to not rely on traps but it's fun to know them.
The one I usually play on my low elo is related to a Budapest Gambit and I can't count how many times I got a mate in 8th move because people did fall for it.
After whites' 2. c4 you strike the center with e5 - opponents usually take as they gain the initiative and force your knight to move again - you don't want to move your light piece twice in the opening unless it's beneficiary, right? 
Then, instead of letting the pawn go, whites want to defend it by any cost.
When black gives a check with 5. B4+ white usually covers with 6. Nd2 instead of Nc3 to avoid dealing with double pawns on the c file.
6. Qe2 sets the trap, black often plays 7. a3 to remove the pin but then black goes 7. cxe5, leaving the bishop under attack. White takes it and gets mated in 1 - 8. Nd3# - a beautiful mate.
Of course, it won't work on decent and stronger players which also explains why Budapest Gambit is not very popular, knowing the theory with the understanding of the positions white gains an early advantage.
For the lower elo? Go ahead and good luck!
Apr 24, 2022
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#28
My favorite opening trap:
Player: oh look I found a nice (not very well known) gambit! Let me study it
Apr 24, 2022
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#29
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
I have gotten quite a few players with this trap.
that is disgusting.
I will be using this
@darkunorthodox88 that's a nice one! I've used a similar idea a couple times against the Catalan :
Even Sergey Karjakin fell for this trap in a game against Dmitry Andreikin in 2010.
Dancingpotato48 wrote:
Even Sergey Karjakin fell for this trap in a game against Dmitry Andreikin in 2010.
Pretty sure that "your trap" means something (nearly) original that you created.
the pirc queen's dungeon in the stonewall attack is SO RARE, it's only been played ONCE!
planning Qe2/Bd2/0-0-0/Be1/Bg2 and offering black whatever minor piece he wants. stockfish rates the position as -2.6, but as a lowly 1400, i was able to beat fritz 6 at least once, maybe twice from this position as a lowly 1400.
once you trade the queen off, throw everything at your opponent if he castles kingside.
it wasn't a plan. i just wanted to trade knights or chase the outpost off before the check that i knew was coming instead of playing Nf3 that time, but after the check, i calculated a minute or so before seeing the trap door
there might be a way to get out of the dungeon, but passive fritz 6 couldn't find it, but did last a lot longer than my human opponent.
Sep 1, 2022
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#38
1983B-Boy wrote:
the pirc queen's dungeon in the stonewall attack is SO RARE, it's only been played ONCE!
planning Qe2/Bd2/0-0-0/Be1/Bg2 and offering black whatever minor piece he wants. stockfish rates the position as -2.6, but as a lowly 1400, i was able to beat fritz 6 at least once, maybe twice from this position as a lowly 1400.
once you trade the queen off, throw everything at your opponent if he castles kingside.
it wasn't a plan. i just wanted to trade knights or chase the outpost off before the check that i knew was coming instead of playing Nf3 that time, but after the check, i calculated a minute or so before seeing the trap door
there might be a way to get out of the dungeon, but passive fritz 6 couldn't find it, but did last a lot longer than my human opponent.
It’s SO RARE because nobody plays that Ne4 crap lmao
Also 8… b6 9. Qe2 Ba6 took me seven seconds to find with Stockfish, and probably seventeen without
so... you're saying you use stockfish to play your games?
stockfish wasn't around 20 years ago.
i DID beat fritz 6 on a 1995ish computer from the position i shared, so it's strong enough. i don't really care because i DESPISE playing it and haven't played it as white since i quit playing because i got sick of that on both sides and 1.e4 d5 2.e5
if you look at chess games, very often too, whatever stockfish suggests is often the worst performing line. there's one position in the BDG, i think, where stockfish's choice is something like 40:60 where a move stockfish calls -2 actually performs more like 60:40. people don't play like computers.
looking at my own games, i find a whole lot of wins from 5-6 points down against even 1800s and the graphs look like heart attacks
Sep 14, 2022
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#40
1983B-Boy wrote:
so... you're saying you use stockfish to play your games?
stockfish wasn't around 20 years ago.
i DID beat fritz 6 on a 1995ish computer from the position i shared, so it's strong enough. i don't really care because i DESPISE playing it and haven't played it as white since i quit playing because i got sick of that on both sides and 1.e4 d5 2.e5
if you look at chess games, very often too, whatever stockfish suggests is often the worst performing line. there's one position in the BDG, i think, where stockfish's choice is something like 40:60 where a move stockfish calls -2 actually performs more like 60:40. people don't play like computers.
looking at my own games, i find a whole lot of wins from 5-6 points down against even 1800s and the graphs look like heart attacks
Even tho it might not be viable at the highest level, it's an interesting concept and looks quite tricky