Showing posts with label chess trap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chess trap. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Keininger Trap in Budapest Gambit worth learning!

I have recently been playing on Chess24 ... The Keininger Trap in the Budapest Gambit seems to catch people out all the time ... In this example I was playing someone online graded over 1830.  You will notice in this game that my opponent thinks I've forgotten to retreat my Bishop after being threatened by a pawn ... but - unbeknown to them, the next move is mate!!

  




As usual, any comments welcome ...

Budapest




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Friday, 6 July 2012

Blackburne Shilling Gambit Trap

Here is a gambit with a nice trap that Blackburne used to play ... but before this - an amusing anecdote concerning Joseph Henry Blackburne courtesy of Wikepedia:

Blackburne's fondness for drinking whisky at the board once led him to down an opponent's glass. Shortly afterwards, the opponent resigned, leading him to quip, "My opponent left a glass of whisky en prise and I took it en passant". In an interview with a liquor industry publication, Blackburne once claimed that drinking whisky cleared his brain and improved his chessplay."

Here is a line in the Blackburne Shilling Gambit. White elects to take the pawn on f7 with the Knight ... This is duly punished with a nice mate ...

As usual - any comments welcome!!












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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Sicilian Defence (Trap #3)

Here is a very simple Trap in the Smith-Morra that is good for White ...










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