So I had here a nice game of 8 moves. Not so much a trap, but the enemy tried to trick me, didn't work. Then I tried to trick the enemy, and that worked a lot better, because the enemy made a terrible mistake, which gave me a mate in 2 moves.
First I offered him a horse of mine, but taking the beast would lead to mate in 2, so he declined that sacrifice, and went to block one line of that mate in 2 with his queen.
Immediately after that block he saw that he overlooked another line that would also give me a mate in 2, so he surrendered.
On move 8. 😆
[Event "Rated Classical game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/BDJzlNqd"]
[Date "2024.04.01"]
[White "jazzpcn"]
[Black "Carnivorum"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2024.04.01"]
[UTCTime "16:19:09"]
[WhiteElo "1766"]
[BlackElo "1878"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-4"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+4"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "1080+18"]
[ECO "A04"]
[Opening "Zukertort Opening: Black Mustang Defense"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
1. Nf3 Nc6 { A04 Zukertort Opening: Black Mustang Defense } 2. c4 e5 3. d3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Nxe5 6. e4 Qf6+ 7. Kg1 Nxc4 8. Qb3 { White resigns. } 0-1
So then the enemy wanted a rematch. That became a Caro-Kann, which has some very nice traps in them. But the enemy did better in this game than the one before.
In the one before he surrendered unconditionally on move 8, but in the second game he only did that on move 11. And that's improvement. 😉
In the Caro-Kann he fell into a trap, and when he saw that he could choose between going mate in 2 moves, or falling victim to a horrible horse fork, he surrendered.
Opening traps are A LOT of fun! 😀 😀 😀
[Event "Rated Classical game"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/ZV6rdAvS"]
[Date "2024.04.01"]
[White "Carnivorum"]
[Black "jazzpcn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2024.04.01"]
[UTCTime "16:22:39"]
[WhiteElo "1882"]
[BlackElo "1762"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+4"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-4"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "1080+18"]
[ECO "B10"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights Attack"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]
1. Nf3 c6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 { B10 Caro-Kann Defense: Two Knights Attack } dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Ne5 Bh7 8. Qh5 g6 9. Bc4 e6 10. Qe2 Nf6 11. Nxf7 { Black resigns. } 1-0
Here an action photo of me in which I play chess with my neighbor:
https://tinyurl.com/bajes-chess