I Tested VIRAL TikTok Opening Traps to see if they work | EP.1 

time to reveal the real reason… I deal with depression since i was a kid….on and off… Sometimes, its just too hard to do videos when i’m feeling v low. I keep fighting and deal with it much better nowadays though. Got back into the gym, eating healthy. I now feel great and motivated again. We all take care of our physical health way more than our mental one… It all starts with your mental one. If you feel good inside, the physical world follows… When you’re a content creator, you’re kind of not allowed to take time for yourself when things dont go your way but i think it’s primordial to switch off, work on yourself and get back in shape to deliver the best value 🙏🏼 Continuing to do videos with lower quality when you’re down is IMO unfair to you. This society rewards people who dont show their weaknesses. I’m human and I believe everyone falls at some point and most several times during their life. The most important is to be able to raise your head, get back in the game and keep fighting again. Problems are not the issue but the way we deal with them. It all started when I was born, my mother left the house when I was 6 months old and disappeared. I have been dealing with accepting that my life started this way my whole life. thoughts like: “if my own mother decided to leave, i must be disappointing, not worth it in a way”. I suffered from the imposter syndrome, never happy with my achievements, never thinking that I was enough whatever I achieved. I was few years back the best interest rates broker in London but managed to destroy this success because i believed i wasn’t worth it. I’m now 45y old and finally accepted the situation, built an amazing family with my wife and daughter I love so much. my wife and daughter helped me understand so many things in life…I believe you cannot call yourself a man or reach real maturity until you become parent. Let’s focus on the present, not the past, not the future… and right now, I am ready to teach you and bring as much value as I can ❤🙏🏼

@@chessscapeIm sorry about that very much! If you don’t feel good you don’t have to make a video, I want you too fulfill your life and we can complain about you not being here. The most thing I care about is you being alright

@@JetLe23thank you 🙏🏼

@s.p.tharunram3606Thank you 🙏🏼

Let the healing continue. We love you and want you at peak performance. Came to the comments to thank you but now I pray your health improves

hope chess is recipe for disaster 😅

I have found exactly one opening trap that stockfish claims is bad but still wins me games. And that's 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. e5 Nd5 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bxf7+ Kxf7+ 8. Ng5+. Stockfish evaluates it as like -1.1-1.3 because I'm down a full bishop and my only compensation is their king is exposed. But about half the time, even at my level of about 1400 rapid, opponents will do Kg8 and lose immediately to Qb3+ which is a forced mate in a few moves. The other half of the time they correctly go back to e8 but there's some followups where if they're not careful they can blunder checkmate anyway (usually by trying to force out the knight too fast, which lets the queen enter the attack). As I climb ELO, it'll stop winning as opponents calculate better or just know it. But at my level? If I'm allowed to play that bishop sac, I win about 90% of the time.

if you play h3 you meant yes you’re right because after Bh5 Ne5 and if Ne5 Qh5 Nxc4 Qb5 check gets the knight on c4 back

@@chessscape Yes that is the Legal Mate/Trap from the 1700's You have to play h3 first so that taking your knight still leads to white up a pawn in the end.

i know you are 100% right. i take videos to correct them. i should have showed this variation you mentioned though. i thought about it after posting the video 😅

@@chessscape i think it would be a cool video idea "do this instead of this" of something similar. Love your content, keep up the good work

It's called the "Oh no my queen!" Trap actually, and in that tiktok it was done absolutely horribly and you are absolutely not supposed to hang the knight like that

sure

thank you my friend! means a lot to me ❤

the rook attacks the queen on e8 and then takes the pawn on e4 with chk

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They work as long as your opponent doesn't know how to play or only started playing recently

yes you can but the queen takes your bishop

@@chessscape yea, but you are still up a piece

and than you just develop you pieces, you have a piece more, and at least 2 more pieces developed

the rook attacks the queen on e8 and then takes the pawn on e4 with chk

​@@chessscape oh I see, thank you❤

Qxe5 is actually a great move. if the rock attack the queen, u can simply take bishop with Qxc5. The Nc3 defend the pawn on e4.

​@@skouterr Bro first he can't defend the pawn because of pin, second how can black knight defend white?

thank you

It also works on 1 minute bullet, where such blunders can happen on higher levels. Pretty sure these tik tok accounts can't play bullet.

this is correct!

😂

good points

More to come! 😉

How are you doing Arsenniy?😁

@@farouqbaiti4315 im okay =)