In this chess trap we look at one of the most common traps in the legal trap. White allows black to hang himself with a beautiful queen sacrifice and then finishes off the black king with three minor pieces.
well maybe its called like that cos of its similarities i.e., at first glance it looks like I'm giving you a free queen but turns out its game over 2 moves later lelz
Man, I love this trap! I used this in a National tournament. I came out of the room 4 minutes later and my dad was like "you were supposed to take 4 hours, not four minutes!"
@@bob1234881 ah yeah that too 😂. If they bring out the other knight, or the black bishop... it doesn’t work. I’ve also been led on where they don’t take the bate and they obliterated me 🤷🏻♂️
Legal's mate can also arise in other openings, such as the Scotch Gambit, e.g. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4 Bc4 d6 5 c3 dxc3 6 Nxc3 Bg4 7 O-O Ne5 8 Nxe5.
Awesome trap. I don't see that many people play the Philidor, but many people will probably fall for it. What I love about this trap is that even if it fails, will make you go up in material or mate, unlike some other traps in which you would be down points if declined. 5*
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It should be noted that you can achieve a Legals mate through a few different small variations, i just pulled it off with the following moves. 1. E4 E5 2. NF3 NC6 3. BC4 H6 4. NC3 D6 5. D4 BG4 6. PxE5 NxE5 7. NxE5 BxD1 and the rest is history (Legal's Mate in 2)!!! First time I pulled it off with a D4 PxE5 move and i took a moment to calculate and make sure i could before my 6th move and it worked perfectly!
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@dukefreed2000 yeah look around 3:30-3:55. The h3 is very important. If not then after Nxe5, then black can play Nxe5 and be up in material. His knight is protecting his bishop on g4. If after h3 though the bishop is moved back to h5 then after the white knight moves he's opening up an attack with his queen on the bishop and it's now not protected by the knight.
If rather than taking the queen, they move the pawn as you said, the Queen should take the bishop. If they go ahead and take white's bishop in response, then Queen moves to f7 for checkmate. If they move g7-g6 to threaten the queen, she retreats to f3 for the same threat of checkmate. If black responds with the knight to threaten the queen, again, white queen moves to f7 for checkmate. If black moves something else, you can respond in a manner so that you're still up on piece count.
The knight on c6 does two things. First it develops a minor piece to the center and second and most important it does in fact protect the black pawn. The knight on c6 can get to the e5 and therefore the white knight can't capture it because black is defending it.
This trap is brilliant! I play the Italian game and I cannot wait to catch someone in this. I mess with your videos bruh. You have improved my game significantly. Keep up the good work.
YES !:) After you take the Bishop with the Queen, you will be up in material, you can castle king's side with a simple Light Square development, you can play d3 or d5 if you are aggressive player, you will have a great game. Cheers.
that does not work because the knight on c6 can capture the knight on e5 and now there's no checkmate also the queen cannot capture the bishop on g4 because it's defended by the knight on e5. so the thing is that you don't want the bishop to stay on g4 so you need to play pawn h3 to force the bishop to h5 so when the knight captures on e5 the bishop isn't protected so you can capture it with the queen and you're equal material
Worth mentioning is that many times an opponent, when he plays d6 to defend e5, he won't have his knight to c6 yet. If, instead, it's a knight on f6, you can just take e5 and retreat right after, nothing he can do. In other words, h3 is only needed if knight is on f6 instead of c6, and the trap works just the same. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 Bg4 5 Nxe5...
the actual moves of the Legal-St.Brie Paris game, played in 1750(where the trap comes from) is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Bg4 4.Nc3 g6 5.Nxe5! Bxd1?? 6.Bxf7+ Ke7 7.Nd5#
you mean with his bishop? yes he can. I think i went over that in the video. That is black's best move in the video is Bishop takes on f3 to prevent the trap.
I have seen a few other videos on this trap and everytime they fail to explain why that h3 move is so important and there are always comments to the affect of "why do I even need to move pawn to h3?" Great video.
at 4:08 Kxc4 which concludes you'd be trading a bishop and a knight for only a bishop on your opponent's side, so had your opponent not taken the bait, the h3 move wouldn't have made a difference trade-wise.
It's actually the " lagell's " trap named from the Frenchmen who played it ina game against an opponent who's names escapes me at the moment but was in my book 50 very important chess games that you should know ..
LEGAL TRAP IN CHESS? The Legal Trap derives from the Italian game where white develops his light square bishop to the c4 square on the third move, adding pressure to the d5 light square. If black responds by building his defense with d6 then white can simply go into the Legal Trap. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. Nc3 Bg4 5. h3 Bh5 6. Nxe5 The Legal Trap is one of the more common traps that any chess player will come across. This is because it is found in a very common opening and none of the moves made by black look terribly bad on the surface. As we can see though, black will have to make a choice to take the bait from white and capture the queen, losing the game, or instead go down in material and fight on to see another day. Anytime a player exposes his queen, it is really hard for the other player not to take it. That is why this trap works so well. Also if they don’t take the bait, you are still in a great position. Watch the video below to watch more detailed explanations of the Legal Trap. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LNgEV3TLi2A.html
@sshamron Kevin did say about that on the video.. Try to watch it a bit longer.. If the Knight takes the pawn on e5, then Black can simply take that Knight plus guarding the Bishop on g4.. So, it's important to move h3 first before doing Nxe5 to prevent that from happening..
It's not pronounced "legal." It is named after a French player named Ser Legal in which the "le" is not pronounced "lee," but rather, like the French "le" and the "gal" is pronounced like "My Gal Sal." Think "Le Gal." It is more commonly known as Legal's Legacy. There is a story that when Legal came up with this concept in the mid 18th century, he put on a bit of a show to entice his opponent to fall for it the first time he used it in a game. He picked up the f3 knight, then put it back down. His opponent, gleefully eyeing the queen, called him out on that and forced him to make a move with the knight. Legal studied the board for a moment, then shrugged and played Nxe5 as if to say well, swapping the pawn for my queen is the best I can do. Legal then put on a big, if phony, show of frustration at his "blunder" as he took the pawn. Naturally, the opponent grabbed the queen quickly and then Legal sprang his previously discovered mate for the first time ever. Much to his opponent's chagrin, I would imagine.
Once I have used this trap to my friend... 5.Nxe5 my friend laughed and responded 5. ... Bxd1. He said, ‘oh thanks pal! You cannot undo!!!!’ Stupid guy. I responded 6. Bxf7+ and said, ‘You don’t wanna your king?’ He looked at the board and... resigned.
At 4:25 why would black not first play pawn g6? The queen can swing back to defend the bishop, but it is a much better position for black unless I'm not seeing something.
This trap actually figures in _Myst IV: Revelation_. *Atrus*: (in one flashback) If he's thinking ahead, then he'll see the trap I've set moving my queen alone. But if he's not... I may just win this game in two moves! *Sirrus*: (in another flashback) What kind of a move is _that_? You had me, Father. You totally had me! And now you're leaving your queen wide open?
Bad idea. If you don't move your pawn, then you blunder a knight. Nxe5 will both take your knight and protect the bishop. On the other hand, if you kicked the bishop back and your opponent is ready for this trap, he'll take the knight and you can take the bishop back, so you don't lose material.
Why 5. h3? (at 1:48) Doesn't the trap work just as well if you move the knight straight away? So instead of: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. Nc3 Bg4 5. h3 Bh5 6. Nxe5 Bxd1 7. Bf7+ Ke7 8. Nd5# It's quicker and just as effective if: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. Nc3 Bg4 5. Nxe5 Bxd1 7. Bf7+ Ke7 8. Nd5# What am I missing about that h pawn move? I can't see why it's necessary.
My mistake, Kevin. I came here from the website, I see you do explain it after the main moves on this video. I'll leave this up in case anyone else makes the same mistake I did. So if after 6. Nxe5 Nxe5 7. Qxh5 Nxc4 then queen to b5 check with a knight fork and white wins the piece back.... I get it. I'm slow, but I get there eventually, lol. Thanks for your videos btw, they're great. Just found them not long ago and I'm going to watch a lot more now.
