My opening repetoire is filled with lots of nice little traps. Here's a fun one that you likely won't have seen before.
Your favorite opening trap
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Musikamole wrote:
I stumbled onto this opening trap which I found both entertaining and instructive. A GM Walter Browne was beat in this trap by a guy 1000 points lower in elo during a simul. It's called the fishing pole trap and you can learn more about it by watching either the youtube presentation by jrobichess http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqq2OAU3JQk or Brian Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exGSXjvKej0&feature=fvw.
I'm only a year into my chess journey, so if you have little interest in posting a favorite trap because all of this is old hat to you, then I'd much appreciate your feedback on a favorite book on traps.
Why traps? I'm a pretty passive player in blitz play, so I am exploring ways to be a more attacking player.
All annotations are mine. If I made any mistakes, please feel free to fix them. I hope you enjoy playing the Ruy Lopez as Black in a blitz game in the future and taking White completely out of book.
So.... can somebody tell me why after 8..... g3 white decides to give up the queen for nothing by doing 9 Qh5 (it's going to be mated anyway after the queen gets captured, it acomplished nothing) instead of trying 9.Knight to f3, I know it may doesn't solve all of white problems but it stops the mate on h2 and it threatens the black queen while it can't be captured by the pawn on g3 anymore and it leaves the square on e1 free so the rook can give a scape to the king.
The trap is nice, but I don't see the logic of the end
Cheers
I'd get the following sequence semi-regularly up until the 1300-1400s or so (10 minute blitz)
Edit to add: the move orders can vary before Ne5
