guys when you try to use a trap on an opponent, always remember that your first moves must be really slow in order to make them think you dont have a plan.
I feel you man keep up the hard work you'll get it. The truth is most people you play online in the beginning don't follow "the standard lines" then you have to adapt and make your own thing up as you go along.
Lol ikr? What I've started doing to remedy this is either get your chessboard, use the analysis tool on a chess website, or even just notate all the moves over and over and OVER until it's burned into your memory :)
Actually the Englund gambit is'nt that great there's a video on youtube about how to play against the Englund gambit I guess its title is "how to destroy the Englund gambit " be sure to check it out ,it's very useful
Here's the best chess trap. You say "Hey, what's that over there!" and point in a random direction with your finger. And then when he looks, you hit him over the head with the chess clock. Works every time.
Learning and trying to apply those traps really helped me a lot as a (still) beginner. Not really because the worked (only a few times), but because you start to understand some principles and mistakes. Right now I compete with ~1400...1600 players and that the level where they will not fall for the traps... So you have to modify them ;)
these traps can be used for beginners or sometimes intermediate.. not for an experienced chess player.. bcoz whenever you make a move they already predict your next 3-4 moves in advance.
@@ChasishOnRU-vid If you take with the King, then you lose your queen and cannot kill his queen. Put it into a board editor and you will see you lose your queen for nothing. King will be out of position.
The Fishing pole was a favorite line I used for a while taught to me by Master Brian Wall I laid out a full-page sp[read sheet with several amazing variations of the fishing pole attack and even one used by one of his young prodigies to beat a master in a live game. - www.djemir.com
@@omarashraf8928 thanks for replying, I'm still kinda confused though. I didn't understand why knight d4 can't take queen f3? How is black's king checked on e6 if he does that?
@@odouroushouseant yes i saw that but this guy is creating a knight with his pawn which is wrong as due to this king will move and bg4+ wouldn't work. I think he should create a queen with his pawn so that king doesn't move and bg4+ can work!
@@pawelostrowski6513 dude if he will make a knight with his pawn then BG4+ will not work as king will move due to check by knight. He can just move bg4+ and take the queen when king is at E2
When we say experience counts, we don't mean that through experience you can win every game. Same applies here, knowing and applying these traps is like having experience, which in turn helps you to become more familiarized with common and uncommon openings as well as such traps. Trust me, you're better off knowing these little traps than not. I always apply these openings and most times not even exactly, but the same idea. These openings are based on your opponest's best likely respones, and you'll be surprised just how many, even very good chess players, fall for this.
"No plan survives contact with the enemy." Expect the unexpected, oftentimes the less experienced chess players will NOT fall for these, since they will not plan their counter-moves mathematically correctly, and this is also a great tactic to use in chess. Be random and chaotic, sacrifice every fucking piece on the board so your opponent will not be able to know what to expect or how to counter-attack. Works wonders. Higher elo players play mathematically, rather than creatively, that's why they tend to fall for these traps ironically. I've seen it in my circle of friends several times, such a fun game.
Hey Kevin, thanks for posting these videos. I have two questions about the Lasker trap. 1) why doesn't the king take the pawn on f2? 2) Two moves later the pawn is promoted to a knight and for some reason the rook doesn't take the knight on g1. I don't understand why. Thanks, Andrew
If the king takes the pawn on f2 then his queen would fall on d1. The king is the only defender of that piece right now. On the second question if the rook takes the knight then black can play bishop to g4+ winning the queen.
I had the same question 2) about the rook not taking failing to notice that the king was on the same diagonal as the queen. Love how that was so obvious to the guy giving the lesson that he didn't even mention. This is why I'm not very good at chess!
Personally I've pulled of the legal trap more often when I skip moving my pawn to H3. Something about moving it there has just always caused the opponent to just take the knight
It can work like that, yes, but you should know that h3 is actually mandatory, because if, instead of playing h3, you play Knight to e5 directly, then black, if he pays attention, can capture your knight with his Knight that stands on c6, while you can't take his Bishop with your Queen, because his Knight (being on e5 now) will cover for the Bishop, thus putting you in a disadvantage in both material and development. But yeah, I guess most Black players won't pay attention because of the free queen...
@@juanvenegas5253 No, because if you turn pawn into a queen then black gets the in-between move Qxd8+, and blackis forced to recapture the queen, then black will take the newly queened pawn, the importance of promoting to knight is that it comes with check
7:03 rook takes knights check,king doesnt have to move although u should take with the pawn and turn into a knight so then u put ur white bishop and deliver check and that gives u a free queen and possible u can turn in to a mate if you take with yours
Kevin my man 😎. I've been looking for this channel to recommend to a friend. Last I watched your videos was when I was beginning chess about 12 years ago 😅. Your videos helped me quite a lot. Was 1600 then I'm 2400+ now (lichess rating).
6:51 So I see everyone is on the “why can’t rook take”, and I get that it leads to Bg4, skewering the king and queen, but why not just play that to begin with instead of capturing the knight?
my favorite is the legal trap but quick question...In the lasker trap, why can't the rook just capture the knight on G1? Anyways you should also add up the fried liver attack. It's awesome
My last chess match was unbelievable. I have this classmate--let's call him Anthony--who has a learning disability. While I don't know what it's officially called, it limits his general ability to understand things. I can't tell you how many times he needed clarification in school. He's slow, Mr. "I don't get it." He always needed help in setting up the equipment for biology class (while we all could do it easily) and he had to switch out of our chemistry class to take his own individual (and simpler) assignments to Special Ed. Not to mention, he's an 18-year-old junior in high school. Well, he should've graduated by now. Apparently his learning disability and childhood speech delay kept him back two years, between preschool and middle school overall, so he's gonna graduate at age 20 (oh, man, that's sad). But what's even sadder is this: he beat me at chess. Chess is an intellectual game, requiring brains and strategy. I've always been good at it. I mean, it's no big deal if I lose a match to just any-ol-body, but if it's Anthony, that's just... wrong. Totally ridiculous. So I gotta ask...am I stupid?
Paul Googol I disagree with this. Traps show you creative ways to win games and you can reuse these patterns in different situations. And if they don’t work, you still need skill to win. But if you think otherwise, that’s ok. I see where you are coming from. If a really bad player is in a higher rated league just because they know lots of traps, that’s not fair for them or their opponents.
@@benshaw5382 Beside the Albin countergambit (a joke to call the Queens Gambit a gambit anyway) the traps look cheap and if you faced them, they should not be a problem. The legals mate is just a plain blunder not developing the kingside in a sharp bishop opening type position.
I said the Albins is interesting but 4.e3 is just a well known blunder so I would not include it as opening preparation. Just remember it is not playable and you will never forget it cause of the rare underpromotion theme.The fishing pole is interesting to reinforce an active piece and build up pressure but it depends on the preparation and followup if it is a dumb idea or not.
*1:49** #5 Blackburne Shilling Gambit Trap oh my God I can't believe it worked! I usually never have the luck to find players falling in my traps* *Thanks!!*
I don't think that this trap makes sense, you are just having a knight more and you have exchanged the queens also. It reduces the checkmate possibality
i just started playing chess so no judge, but why is the elephant trap so good? you are basiclly have one more knight then him, he can definitely come back from that. like how do you suppose to proseed the game to a sure victory?
Just started watching, stopped at "Legal Trap." What would you do if bishop doesn't take quuen on D1, instead knight C6x e5 attacking unprotected c4, losing a piece for a pawn whether or not queen takes h5. Your thoughts?
@@ViswasHaridas That's how I would play that position. You're right, your knight is still hanging but you just took away your opponent ability to castle. After King d8, Queen-H5 would lead to a favorable chain for white and your opponents knight is still hanging also. Can simply attack their knight and offer a trade or time to move your knight.
Do you know what would really help? To identify which traps that are set by the black pieces and which are set by the white pieces so we can easily come back and study them! Congrats on the video!
I think if that happens, then Nb4 will be black's move, threatening the pawn at c2 with a king-rook fork. If white Q takes it, then black Q can take white Q. Though the threat at c2 pawn can be protected by white's Nd4, the black's Bc5 may take care of that white knight. I'm not sure though. What do you think?
It really comes down to black not falling for the trap. They can play 5...Nxe5 6. Qxg4 Nxc4 and white is down material. But if the bishop is on h5 then 6...Nxe5 7. Qxh5 Nxc4 8. Qb5+ and then white takes the black knight.
@chesswebsite in 1:21 what if the black refuses to take queen but captures White's knight with his knight at e5,after this move even if the white queen captures the bishop at h5 the black knight can take White's bishop at c4
