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Titled-strong players , can you share similar beautiful traps in Alaphin variation to this one !?
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It's an interesting position for sure, and the Ra5 g5 g4 Rg5 idea to try and win the Queen recommended by the engine is unique and not something I've seen before.
It can however be stopped with h3 from White, where a further g4 hxg4 Bg4 to threaten taking on f3 and playing Rg4 can be met by Nbd2:
Black still has play with Qb6 to hit b2. Honestly I'd rather play Black as it seems Black has the initiative.
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It's an interesting position for sure, and the Ra5 g5 g4 Rg5 idea to try and win the Queen recommended by the engine is unique and not something I've seen before.
It can however be stopped with h3 from White, where a further g4 hxg4 Bg4 to threaten taking on f3 and playing Rg4 can be met by Nbd2:
Black still has play with Qb6 to hit b2. Honestly I'd rather play Black as it seems Black has the initiative.
Yes I know my trap by white is beautiful, especially in a rapid time controls it's a nightmare for black to figure out some of the moves and ideas and he needs to burn time.
BUT BUT why are we discussing my own trap !? I already know it, that's why I want it to know more traps by white in Alapin variation by white , reason I created this thread.
pfren wrote:
7.Bxa7 Nc6! 8.Be3 Nf6 gives Black plenty of compensation for the pawn: better development, and the a8 rook is doing business without having to move at all. Enough, or not? As usual, it depends on the players. I guess I would play either side.
Parting with the exchange like 7...Rxa7 8.Qd4 Nc6 9.Qxh8 Nf6 is also interesting, but I don't see the reason to take such a double-edged and risky approach as Black. The position is unclear, but I think it is easier for Black to make a mistake. One may argue that "the computer says that Black is fine" if he is fool enough to think he/she can play like a computer.
Yes I know my trap by white is beautiful, especially in a rapid time controls it's a nightmare for black to figure out some of the moves and ideas and he needs to burn time.
BUT BUT why are we discussing my own trap !? I already know it, that's why I want it to know more traps by white in Alapin variation by white , reason I created this thread.
I'm looking for a NEW TRAPS by white in Alapin variation that's why I created this thread , not discussing my own trap that I already know.
Not really a trap, but an interesting transposition. In one or the other book I could find the hint that the Gambit is bad, but nowhere that it actually is the Shara-Henning-Gambit. Nobody seems to have noticed that yet. 
ESP-918, you're trippin' man, It's a relatively well-known trap in chess literature. It certainly isn't 'your trap'.
0peoplelikethis wrote:
ESP-918, you're trippin' man, It's a relatively well-known trap in chess literature. It certainly isn't 'your trap'.
Ok show us more well known traps in Alapin then
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pfren wrote:
0peoplelikethis wrote:
ESP-918, you're trippin' man, It's a relatively well-known trap in chess literature. It certainly isn't 'your trap'.
It's not his "trap", but it is hardly a "trap" at all. Just a normal position with play for both sides.
Here is a game where Black dominated, and this is not a fast game.
In this game, white is a National Master, and Black a strong Grandmaster who deliberately fell into that "trap". He won quite easily by playing fine aggressive chess.
And another one, where Black opted for the risky exchange sac line:
To be short, a trap where Black has a good game if he falls into the trap is effectively not a trap, at all.
Non sense by you.
First of all obviously it's not my trap , when I said it's my trap I meant I created this thread and showed this particular set up which belongs to my research and " my trap" in a sense, it's not very common and if I use it I can call it "my trap" in a sense.
Now what you showed is completely embarrassing, next time show us game with SUPER GM playing black and 1000 playing white and how easily black can dominate and how weak of a trap this is lol.
And no its not just a set up its a trap if you are playing with white similar strength opponent short time controls and blacks not ready for this theory because it's not very common do you think after white takes free pawn it would be super easy for black to punish white? I don't think so and if black let white takes a rook do you think black without knowing theory or remembering can easy trap whites queen? I don't think so .
So bottom line is white takes a pawn, initiative, time advantage and black who's need to prove it!
Are we going to continue discussing my trap or my set up or are you going to benefit to this thread and show us some of your own similar traps or set ups ?
Please post a diagram or move notations what tricks do you know in Alapin to win or outplay black .
M personal favorite is this :
1. e4 c5
2. c3 d5
3. e × d5 Q × d5
4. d4 g6
5. d × c5 Q × c5
6. Be3 Qc7
7. B × a7 R × a7
8 Qd4
Whites grabs an extra material and black isolates white Queen from the game and later trying to trap it (which is not that easy).
Please be free to post my variation on a diagram if you can , thank you I appreciate that.