A little trap That I found in the scotch game

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cellomaster8 wrote:
Can you provide a few examples of this trap occurring during a game? I've never seen it before in one of my games.

 

You haven't seen it in your games because I have discovered it very recently.

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So I ran the position through the ChessBase mega database. (Which contains billions of games)

Surprisingly, I did find quite a few games using your starting position (of the puzzle)—maybe about a million or so. However, I’ve only found 20 games where this “trap” has occurred, the average rating being around 1100.

Now I can see why I haven’t seen it before 😀
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My apologies. I stand corrected.
The database contains about 6.4 million games (I was way off), and I found about a few thousand games with your “trap”
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Alihene wrote:
cellomaster8 wrote:
Can you provide a few examples of this trap occurring during a game? I've never seen it before in one of my games.

 

You haven't seen it in your games because I have discovered it very recently.

 

There is another "trap" for you to discover in that position, it is when black play Qh4 instead of Nf6

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There is no trap with Qh4

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just a better position for white

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Funnily enough, everybody in this thread is wrong. The OP is right, this is a trap but he didn't "discover" this trap either. He found the trap by himself but this isn't the first time it's been played. I've had a similar position occur at least a dozen times in OTB blitz.

Cellomaster8 is right, this isn't the main line. It's obviously not the main line because it's an opening trap. So, I don't know what your point is. I guess you're just trying to argue for the sake of arguing.  Example:

 

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Alihene wrote:

There is no trap with Qh4

 

Same type of "trap" as Nf6 - black blunder a piece

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JasM01 wrote:
A Nice little Trap

 

i agree @JasM01