List of chess traps
List of chess traps
In chess, a trap is a move which tempts the opponent to play a bad move. Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening, some traps have occurred often enough that they have acquired names. If the opponent sees through the trap, it can backfire.
List of chess traps Ordered by chess-opening:
- Albin Countergambit: Lasker Trap
- Blackmar–Diemer Gambit: Halosar Trap
- Bogo-Indian Defence: Monticelli Trap
- Budapest Gambit: Kieninger Trap
- Englund Gambit Trap
- Italian Game: Blackburne Shilling Gambit
- Petrov's Defence: Marshall Trap
- Philidor Defence: Légal Trap
- Queen's Gambit Declined:
- Elephant Trap
- Rubinstein Trap
- Ruy Lopez:
- Mortimer Trap
- Noah's Ark Trap
- Tarrasch Trap
- Fishing Pole Trap
- Sicilian Defence:
- Magnus Smith Trap
- Siberian Trap
- Vienna Gambit: Würzburger Trap