10 Chess Traps to Win FAST!! 

Lol

You guys can just prepare for scholars mate if your already aware it's coming, but you want to play with her so much that you let her win, right?

@@Dolritto the idea is that for her first ever game, she's gonna pull a surprise checkmate. If you're aware that its coming, she's probably already beaten you with it, and will never play you again. A true pro gamer move

I feel like scholars mate should be your first expectation when playing anyone

trick to beat kids

This is brilliant, but there's a special place in hell for people like that lol.

@@_v2.0 in Russia these people end up with their nose broken

Opponent scratches balls:

Wow I have no idea if I should be impressed or disgusted.

Pure genius.

damn this shit started wholesome and at the end…

Ahh, passing the pain of loss from generation to generation. It is said that hard times create strong men and there is no exception for the chess board.

@@mrduckface9384 and at the end it became golden

I’ve watched a few videos, let me play him. I think i can take a 6 yr old… btw, i play houserules where my opponent can’t play with a queen and 1 bishop of their choice… i think i can take him 😏

Your number please

The petrov is good but above 1200 not many people fall for it

@@colegieseking5136 Thanks, it maybe helpful for me

@@ilmamwafiy8496 I promise that if you play for these tricks you will get them a ton.

Yeah I tend to lose my queen a lot

I know right!

You just convinced me to main the Ponziani

@@matthewglenguir7204 same

Ruy lopez is better lol, fewer traps but greater positions

​@@s_solus3089yeah stockfish actually really hates the ponziani opening lol. Also I personally think the ponziani has very few traps to fall into.

he is still better than u

That's the problem with these gambits, they are very well known in the online community. I played into Albin like 15 times already and no-one took the damn bishop :D

@@tomaszk.6065 They don't even play e3. They almost always play Nf3 and it's like a +1 advantage for white haha. Still, at my level I'm fond of the Albin, that pawn on d4 makes for some very dynamic games

@@tomaszk.6065 I play Urosov and Nakhmanson and players aren't so savvy about it, at least at my level

@@tomaszk.6065 the problem with those gambits is: u want to win just by knowing some moves, not being better

Yeah, the reverse Légal trap. The main trap, iirc, is from the Italian game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6 4.Nc3 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.Nxe5!). Main line goes 6...Nxe5 7.Qxh5 Nxc4 8.Qb5+ c6 9.Qxc4 and White is a pawn up with a better position. In that Stafford line however, Black has nothing after something like 6.h3

Yess!!! Such a good trap, I'm surprised he didn't cover it in the video, I've gotten it a handful of times, it catches so many players off guard...

@@colegieseking5136 amazing man so many traps and just one year hats off to you mate

True

Yupp

And still... even as a better player you can forget the correct response...

According to rumors, Légal would often purposefully grab his knight to take the e5 pawn, then put it back down feigning hesitation as if he just saw that his queen was hanging. The opponent would cite the touch-move rule, at which point he'd take, and they'd take the queen without thinking leading to the trap.

@@xxFortunadoxx Often? So Légal didn't just win with it in the stem game against St. Brie, then? Do you have a citation for this?

@@xxFortunadoxx sounds more like something Blackburne would have done

@@rosiefay7283 I don't. I read it awhile back on a site, but I can't find it anymore. That said, considering he played for many years for wagers at the Cafe de la Régence, and routinely gave piece odds like he did against St. Brie, it's very unlikely this is the first time he played it. He was essentially the first chess hustler. What's much more likely is that since this is the only game we have known from him, which isn't surprising given that it was a casual game played in a Paris cafe in 1750; it just happens to be the stem game for the trap.

@@brightpowder_cena Blackburne played it several times, and considering he's known for the Schilling Trap which is rather dubious, it's possible he's the one who did it rather than Légal. I just remember reading somewhere that Légal did this.

Lmaoooooo how bad was your opponent

@@viksinha5410 about 1600

@@sbtrywr666 You are telling me that a 1600 rated player hung a mate on move 6??

@@viksinha5410 yep, this time is was a bit more than just a piece xD

@@viksinha5410 lol

I am a chess player and I play e4. So shut up lol.

@@yaminabrar2253 bruh

Yes, that's the Kieninger Trap. (White escapes by 8 BxN/NxN.)

That's true by definition. If a move had no refutation, it would be a good move, and we wouldn't call it a trap.

I feel the same way about the Englund, I've only lost once to it in a biltz game when I was fairly low rated, but in every single rapid game that I've gone against Englund, I was able to figure out the theory even when I was 1200, its very simple and just requires visualizing the opponents 1-move response to your move. Nowadays I play the refutations to the Englund even faster than the people who actually play the thing. I feel like Gotham should treat it as more of a beginner trap for those under 1000 than a beginner to intermediate trap

The traxler aint that bad even if they take with bishop cause black still gets so much counter play. Yeah if you gave the position to two engines white would win everytime, humans are trash and just put pressure. Exhibit a: im 1600 rapid and I still manage to blunder my queen.

@@user-jz1nt1ej3z The Traxler is bad. Trust me, I'm a 1200 who almost certainly still blunders more than you. The opponent going for the Traxler used to be my favourite opening by opponents. I don't get there anymore after I changed to d4 and Caro-Kann openings. The first thing is to play Bxf7+ after black plays Bc5. DO NOT take f7 with the knight on g5. Take it with the bishop and then (once the king has moved out of check), retreat the bishop all of the way back. Now if they still play Bxf2+, take it with your king. There's no real danger anymore. The queen cannot get out fast enough to trouble you. And they cannot now follow up with Nxe4+ because your knight is still on g5 and protecting the e4 pawn. Whether or not they still play Bxf7+, you have 3 things to secure your position asap. - play d3 to over-protect the e4 pawn, because you'll need to retreat the knight on g5 that currently protects it. - retreat your knight on g5 back to f3, provided you have already played d3 to protect e4. - play h3 prevent them from playing Bg4 which would attack your queen. Note 1. Play h3 *immediately* whenever black advances their d-pawn. You really MUST not allow them to play Bg4. Note 2. If they play an early h6, FORCING you to move the g5-knight before you've protected the e4-pawn with d3, then you (paradoxically) should go back into f7 with the knight, forking their queen and rook, and you take the rook once they have moved their queen. At that point you abandon the knight until you've complete the other priorities above. Try it out against an engine. The worst you'll end up with if they try 4 ... Bc5 is one pawn up, a solid position, and an opponent who has lost castling rights. Leave another reply if you have problems.

@@rossmurray6849 what kind of d4 player are you? London, catalan, blackmar diemer, queen's gambit

You can’t move the rook diagonal

​@@strider1015 I mean I moved the rook diagonal to the king. RF6 and KE7

How tf do you cut a king???

@@yareyaredacat9943 With a knife. Or better yet, sword.

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Exactly, once you learn the refutation to the Englund, it just farming elo next. Easy wins

Bongcloud opening

Lmao

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this statement is a valid chess statement

So?😂😂😂

Splendid observation.

Indeed.

For lazy people, here's a line that shows it from Ruy Lopez opening : 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 h6 4. Bxc6 (exchange variation) dxc6 5. O-O Bg4 6. h3 h5 (that one is known as the Alapin gambit), with the idea that 7. hxg4 hxg4 8.Nxe5 is followed by 8... Qh4 with unavoidable mate.

you’re not gonna get better with this trash video

@@wasp7969 ratio

No one watching Levy should play the Catalan. It's a theoretical monster. If theres one thing you should learn from Levy, it's to not play shit like that (Catalan, Spanish, Sicilian) until you're like, 1800. If you're sub 1000 just don't. Seriously, just don't.

@@kruksog dude this is just stupid. I'm 1100 and my best chances against e4 comes from the sicilian and I play a lot of Englishes and it works . Those "theoretical monsters" are great because no one is used to them . Even if I play worse because the position is hard , my opponent play worse too bcs he does not understand wtf is this position.

damn bro 1200 and you didnt know? im 400. but the fried liver has many faults, like simply moving your knight once will tear apart the whole thing.

You lost?

​@@Luarmine he is death.

How does this make sense

What happened

What was the outcome

This is some fine gold

These puns are killing me

1500 elo's great

@@alfiealfie35 hey thanks! It's something :) I am extremely envious of the 2000+ players though, they play such beautiful chess whereas in 1500 zone, much of the game is still complete chaos and there is rarely a truly "artistic" position on the board, if you catch my meaning. :)

@@blastmanutz7798 I'm reaching 1100 i wanna play against u a friendly match bro though I know I am to lose i just want to😂 would you?

1500 is really good, you 100% should not feel bad about yourself, dear King. It's a common pattern than once the chess players learn more interesting tactics we kinda abandon the simple, but working ways, cause we want to progress and use new interesting sistems, it's perfectly normal, you just have to play simple sistem from time to time, even if you felt bored with them working ok-ish for previous dozen games.

Traps are fun but they don't happen often, especially as you go up the rating ladder, but they don't really help to actually improve

Thats rude

Bobby gets ignored by Levy 😮

Hello btw ur chess raps are great

U really correct

He’s an international master. Elite fr

Then he'd take your rook and knight and have another check if bishop is empty

you can't, its pinned to the king by the queen so you can't move it

what happened ?

I lost-

@@miraculousnl2.a512 RIP

@@miraculousnl2.a512 ouch that'd hurt

Eh, I don't mind losing, as long as I had fun while playing -w-

he resigned on move 10. it would have been mate on move 13. still funny though

@@pizzaratex4708 ah yes. Had to type it fast 😂 would edit it.

this video is a more fun one than most

Well, those two things aren't contradictory. You can apply the first if the second doesn't work out as planned.

words spoken by a person who has never touched a chessboard. those moves he plays against himself are the most logical ones and the most common ones

@@heliobroski2243 yeah but tbf this is rly assuming you're playing against a beginner or intermediate player

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This is fair criticism tho, maybe a bit rude for calling him lazy but still

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I mean thats a valid point.

Not wrong