Traps That Work Under 1000 rating

Your Opinions on traps that work best under 1000 rating are needed to make the forum worth it!

Personally My favorite is The Englund gambit, it has a possibility of mating in 8 moves                    It goes Like this..............

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I don't think so cause it has many variation

A trap that works well under 1000 is the Fried Liver attack. The higher you go though the more likely you are to run into the Fritz, Traxler and the standard GM line that people learn after running into the Fried Liver attack.

PS. I have done that 8 move trap with the Englund gambit before, it was fun, but beware that the best move for white involves them seemingly falling for the trap at first and then counter attacking you.

Thanks

But actually most people are not prepared For this opening.

My opinion on traps?

Traps are a waste of time.

If the trap works, you learn NOTHING from winning that game. You already knew the trap. Your opponent, however, DOES learn something from losing that game. So you have cleverly helped your opponent to improve his game, while YOU do not. Nice going.

The only profit you might make by playing for traps is to grab a few cheap rating points... which you will lose again almost immediately since your increased rating does NOT correspond to any increase in your playing strength. You gained the points with a cheap trap, not with better play or improved understanding of chess... so of course you will lose the points back again as soon as your next trap fails.

I would disagree on this, learning traps help learn situations in chess you can use later on. Learning the Traxler for example you learn about deflections and setting up one attack after another. Learning Legal's mate you learn how to sacrifice a strong piece to get a win with your other pieces. You can learn how to smother mate, set up the king for an attack by another piece etc.

You can also see similar situations in your games and recognize you could do a similar or the same tactic to win.

So I recommend learning the traps. You'll remember them after you get some wins, you'll gain confidence and if you're young you can run to your mother and tell her how you got a perfect game doing the Fried Liver when your opponent chose the wrong square to go to.

Here is an example of what I am talking about.

I recognised after move 10 that the board looked very similar to how Legal's mate is set up. I took almost a minute to calculate that it was the same and would work the same and that if he took my knight I'd take his bishop without repercussions and I went for it. If it worked I got mate in 2 if it didn't I got a bishop for a knight.

If I hadn't already previously done Legal's mate a few times would I have seen that. I doubt it.

So I recommend especially to the newer players to learn the traps. At the very least you can learn how to avoid them also.

Thats what I am saying Under 1000 rating not ABOVE it

You stole it from Levy Rozman

Nice one

this IS a forum

Chill IF i mean under 1000 its UNDER thousand after we got high level we play differently, Be Calm

Its Not silly, Chill dont make this a fight

What is the point of asking what works under 1000? Even if the trap doesn't work a 1000 rated players is liable to hang their knight on the very next move after refuting the trap. Every move is a trap when the opponent has a 50% chance to blunder in response. Nothing against 1000 rated players as I'm sure all my blunders look just as obvious to somebody higher rated than me. The point? Why bother with traps? Just play good moves.

playing good moves is nice ,but i assure the feeling when the trap works is sooooo good

See man you maybe trying to play to get higher elo, but I am Playing for fun not competitive, and its fun playing traps for me .

its the persons wish what he plays plus this forum was made so I could learn some traps to play them.

Also traps play good moves, not blunder for no reason

Sounds like the reasoning of a drug addict to me. No offense but you're not doing anything of your own merit so what is the cause of feeling "sooooo good"? It's like sucker punching your opponent before the bell rings and feeling good because the ref somehow didn't catch you. Question: did you start playing chess because it became popular and your friends are playing it or did you start playing chess because the game genuinely captures your imagination? I can kind of understand where you're coming from if you're just riding the wave but it really would make no sense to me if you actually came to enjoy the game independently.

yo I enjoy traps if you don't just don't message