Opening Traps in Chess

There are some known opening traps in chess. Study them, this helps you to understand how quick a game can be lost. Learn to play chess by watching how chess players lose. Replay the chess games below.

If you don't know how to play chess then learn the Chess Rules first. It helps, if you read How to play Chess.

The following chess opening traps will deepen your understanding. The traps might come up in your chess games in different ways. You will probably never run into these chess variations because it is not very likely that your opponent will play exactly like this.

The Lasker Trap

Old Benoni Trap

Please don't play for such a chess traps, because this will not work out in the long run as good players know all cheap traps. It is not worth to employ more sophisticated traps on a higher level.

I have done it, so I know. I was waiting 15 years to play my favorite Scandinavian opening trap that goes over many moves. When it finally happened in a game, I had to think for ten minutes to remember the variation and I searched desperately for it in my memory bank - called brain.

Finally I remembered and I won. Boy! This was a terrific feeling, because my opponent was fairly strong and I was running a devastating attack against his kingside. This was great fun, but who wants to wait 15 years to be able to play a certain variation?

Traps in Chess Openings

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