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Chess Opening Traps You Must Know
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Chess Opening Traps You Must Know

Learn how to trap your opponent and how to avoid traps! Use a few of these traps on your opponents and win games!
Created byViktor Neustroev
Last updated 6/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Know 15 basic traps in popular openings
  • Know how not to be trapped
  • Learn what good and bad traps are
  • Learn common tactical motifs which can lead to a trap

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Course content

1 section • 16 lectures • 49m total length

  • Introduction1:46
  • Good Trap3:53
  • Bad Trap (Legal Mate)2:47
  • Stick to Basic Principles3:41

    Stick to basic opening principles: control the center with pawns, develop knights then bishops, and castle, avoiding early queen development to prevent traps.

  • 2...f64:41
  • Kings Gambit1:47

    Demonstrate a king's gambit trap where white sacrifices a pawn to open the f-file, while black with bishop c5 launches a tactical sequence around h4 and e5, threatening decisive attack.

  • French Defense Tarrasch Variation2:09
  • Chapter 8. d6 (Philidor or Pirc)2:21
  • Russian Game (Petroff Defense)1:56
  • Chapter 10. Traps in Philidor Defense3:30

    Discover key philidor defense traps against e4, including dxe5, queen d5 pressure on f7, queen h5 after exchanges, and the queen sacrifice idea via queen d2 to win a pawn.

  • 2 Knights Defense4:20
  • Italian Game Grecos Attack6:41

    Learn a sharp trap in the Italian game, juco piano, with the c3 line leading to a decisive attack on the king, emphasizing development over material and center control.

  • French Defense Advance Variation2:01
  • Caro-Kann Defense Magnus Carlsen Blundered2:13
  • Nd4 in Italian Game3:11
  • Jobava Attack2:38

    Master the Jobava attack, a trap in which fork threats on c7 and pressure on f7 arise after d4 d5, often via knight b5 or g5 to seize the initiative.

Requirements

  • The rules of chess

Description

This course is about Chess Traps! Sometimes there are moves that appear to be following good principles but which are bad for specific tactical reasons. You make ordinary developing moves, but then you find out that you are trapped and your opponent gets advantage. In this course I show a few traps that you should know not to be trapped!

Of course, it's not possible to demonstrate all the possible opening mistakes here, but I tried to list the most popular ones. However, there are a number mistakes commonly made by beginners and novices in the opening stages of the game and I will show how to react to them.

This course consists of 15 lectures. In every lecture I cover a certain trap. Some traps are good and you can apply them during your games, other are bad and I demonstrate them for you only to learn how not to get trapped, if your opponent tries to outwit you.

I designed this course for beginners and club players with FIDE rating from 1200 to 1700. But if you don’t have FIDE rating, this is not a problem and it shouldn’t stop you from taking this course. Learn them from this course!

After finishing this course, you will learn some of the traps and may apply them during your games. I believe you will improve your performance!

With this course you also get:

  • unlimited lifetime access at no extra costs
  • all future additional lectures, game examples
  • never any questions asked full 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee

Sincerely,  Viktor

Who this course is for:

  • Chessplayers (beginners and clubplayers)

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