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144p

I am looking for some source of opening tricks and traps.can anyone help?

ChessOfPlayer

https://www.youtube.com/user/gunj17/playlists

never watched them but just looked them up for you.

ThrillerFan
144p wrote:

I am looking for some source of opening tricks and traps.can anyone help?

Are you looking for these in order to know which ones you need to avoid?  Or are you actually trying to execute these traps?

If it's the latter, any chess player that isn't a complete moron will know better than to fall for it.

For example, after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4, it doesn't take a French guru to figure out that 7...Nxd4? 8.Nxd4 Qxd4?? 9.Bb5+ drops the Queen!

So if your goal is to try to pull these traps on people, change your goals immediately.  It will harm your chess, and nobody except the worst of morons will fall for such cheaps shots, and in many cases, these "cheap shot" lines are actually worse for the player trying to execute the trap assuming they don't "fall for it".

Play sound chess is the moral fo the story.

sohum3894

ThrillerFan wrote:

144p wrote:

I am looking for some source of opening tricks and traps.can anyone help?

Are you looking for these in order to know which ones you need to avoid?  Or are you actually trying to execute these traps?

If it's the latter, any chess player that isn't a complete moron will know better than to fall for it.

For example, after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4, it doesn't take a French guru to figure out that 7...Nxd4? 8.Nxd4 Qxd4?? 9.Bb5+ drops the Queen!

So if your goal is to try to pull these traps on people, change your goals immediately.  It will harm your chess, and nobody except the worst of morons will fall for such cheaps shots, and in many cases, these "cheap shot" lines are actually worse for the player trying to execute the trap assuming they don't "fall for it".

Play sound chess is the moral fo the story.

6. Bd3 is not a bad move.
DragonPhoenixSlayer

at 1400 i assume that most player dont fall for opening traps unless they are having a really bad day or playing bullet

Sqod

A book with terrific content is...

Pandolfini, Bruce. 1989. Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps. New York: Simon & Schuster.

It's organized by opening, which isn't bad, but I wish it had been cross-referenced much better. That would have made it outstanding.

eaguiraud

ChessOfPlayer wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/user/gunj17/playlists

never watched them but just looked them up for you.

I learned a lot from watching his videos, great material imo.