Playing for traps will stunt your development as a chess player.
You should be trying to play good moves instead.
The reti opening
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Jan 6, 2021
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People who like traps are people who only care about winning and not playing well. They are the kind of people who enjoy pranking others and think it’s an accomplishment if you memorize six moves that the opponent is unfamiliar with.
Lame.
Lame.
Reti Opening first move show that white want to play the english opening. am I right?
The Reti Opening (which I play) is largely devoid of trap lines, mainly because 1. Nf3 is non-committal. White retains the flexibility to respond to whatever black does, while creating no structural weaknesses.
blueemu wrote:
Playing for traps will stunt your development as a chess player.
You should be trying to play good moves instead.
a trap is a good move. If you can trap a piece u won't need development, center control etc
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Narendranc wrote:
Does some one know any trap in the reti opening
look up reti opening trap on youtube
Jan 6, 2021
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#10
A trap is a bad move. It only works if your opponent is unprepared for it. It shows zero thinking to memorize a trap. It’s lazy.
Jan 6, 2021
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#12
Tricks are for kids, but traps are for monkeys. You can literally teach a monkey how to play an opening trap. You can’t teach a monkey how to analyze a position.
Jan 6, 2021
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#13
LinuxUng wrote:
Reti Opening first move show that white want to play the english opening. am I right?
Not necessarily.
White might transpose in certain variations of the English, depending on how Black moves. But White could also choose to transpose into the King's Indian Attack, or the Queen's Gambit, or even the Nimzo-Larsen attack . . . The list can go on.
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
A trap is a bad move. It only works if your opponent is unprepared for it. It shows zero thinking to memorize a trap. It’s lazy.
Eh, people memorize openings too, infact top level chess is basically all about catching your opponent off guard with opening prep. Is it lazy?
Jan 8, 2021
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#15
Actually Traps are part of chess, when you play sound chess you seek to restrict your opponents options and moves, if successful you force him/her into an error, however this is normally well into the middle game having set up your pieces in a sound defensive and aggressive positions. The great thing about chess is every game is different, you should be very careful to look out for traps and when you reach a position where it seems difficult to make a positive move, try harder as this is when the game can be won or lost!
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tricks are for kids
Jan 26, 2021
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kartikeya_tiwari wrote:
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
A trap is a bad move. It only works if your opponent is unprepared for it. It shows zero thinking to memorize a trap. It’s lazy.
Eh, people memorize openings too, infact top level chess is basically all about catching your opponent off guard with opening prep. Is it lazy?
There's a big difference between
(1) playing a move that gives you a good position even if the opponent responds with his best possible answer (that's how opening prep works), and
(2) playing a move that relies on a mistake by your opponent, and gives you a bad game if the opponent responds accurately (that's how opening traps work).
Jan 26, 2021
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#18
There’s a difference between setting up traps in the middle game (ingenuity) versus playing for traps right from the opening (lazy)
There’s the bongcloud response to the Reti Opening: Arctic Defence. f6, Kf7 forever!
Does some one know any trap in the reti opening