30 Jan 13
Originally posted by RJHindsCorrect, thanks RJ
That looks okay to me too. White is another pawn up and still protecting his e-pawn. White is also threatening a back rank checkmate. Black might try g5 attacking the rook, but I doubt if that will really help him much.
P.S. Oh! I see now. 31...Qa1+ now white can not avoid being checkmated.
One must look at all possible opponents moves, pretending ...[text shortened]... pieces and actually see the new position and then I can see it from the opponents point of view.
02 Feb 13
Originally posted by vivifyThat was nice. I would have to be careful, if I were playing you because you are beginning to get good at setting traps. I often fall for these traps OTB when I have less time to think about my moves. I am sure I would have fell for that 2nd trap.
Me, as black (Again, this has two traps.)
[pgn][Date "????.??.??"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 Bb4 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qa4+ Nc6 7.e3 Nf6 8.Bb5 Bd7 9.Bxc6 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 Bxc6 11.Qb4 Ne4 12.Ne5 a5 13.Qb2 O-O 14.c4 dxc4 15.Nxc4 Qf6 16.Ne5 Bb5 { First trap. } 17.a4 { White sees th ...[text shortened]... but my second trap has two parts. } 20...Nxf2+ 21.Kd2 Nd3+ { White resigns. }
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05 Feb 13
Originally posted by vivifyI love how you started this, because it's my opening, Queen's Gambit, if black takes my first pawn. But you held the knights back and moved the second one first. And I love the queens move and have used that but never to catch the queen. Most people won't put the queen in front of the king to set that up.
I really would like to learn some traps. So show me some that you've actually done in your games. If your trap is a well-known trap, please tell me the name of it.
Here's my most recent, as white.
[pgn][Date "????.??.??"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 4.Bxc4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 ...[text shortened]... a4+ Qd7 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 {Black takes the free bishop.} 8.Nxe5+ { Black resigns. }
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