Chess Traps: Halosar Trap 

I wish my friends were smart enough for me to use this...

basically: if the enemy makes a move, ITS A TRAP!

Cute trap, but I'm not convinced. After 7...Qxf3, Nxf3 Black just plays 8...c6. This prevents incursion by the White queen's knight. If Black plays too ambitiously then maybe you can use your superior development to attack weak points in the position, but instead black can just "turtle up" and play e6 Be7 0-0 etc. Once Black's position is secure, he can advance either the e or c pawn and open the position up. With no central pawns, White can't pressure the Black pieces or use pawn levers to create holes in the Black position. The only weaknesses in Black's position are the central and queenside dark squares, but you can't really coordinate to attack them effectively. Even in an optimal position you might land a knight on d6 or something, but this hardly worth 2 pawns.

I was watching this and I kept being like. . . If white moved the light squared bishop he could get an easy check/checkmate...

What if black checks the white king at e4

I won with the Ryder Gambit yesterday. My opponent foolishly took the queen.

Played this at a tournament 1600-level. Had success with it at blitz games, but definitely not at a tournament. Once your opponent puts their Queen on g5 to avoid the trap, you get some nice attacking play but none of it is sound enough to really dent black's defense. Once black develops, you've basically just given up two pawns and complete centre control of the pawns for nothing. I spent the rest of the game in an epic struggle to win pawns back to make it even for the endgame.

I had to bring that part up because if the Queen takes the knight right above it, now your queen is trapped or if you take his queen and put him in check, he will move his (c7) pawn to (c6). you couldn't take his bishop with your queen since his knight will take your Queen o.O chances are in this case Queen will ALWAYS take the knight on (b5). unless of course you want to take out both Queens . lol

Because Nxc7+ checks the King and discover-attacks the Queen at the same time.

Me: Just take the queen!

You know I suck at chess terribly, yet watching your videos truly shows how complex the decision making is behind all of the moves fascinates me!

Black could sacrifice his King (*_*)

LOL great statement at

i just play against my computer. this was the first trap that ever worked for me. just started watchin your video's about chess strat. thank you.

lol I remember watching this channel when I started playing chess 5 years ago. I would play the openings shown in these videos hoping my opponents would fall into a trap but it

This is a brilliant trap! The thought process behind this fascinates me!

That was very strategic play and many people I know would fall for this amazing trap.

I try this but my enemy doesnt even move what you said

I finally pulled this off!! Wasnt perfect, but i won because my opponent took my queen.