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what are some of the most effective traps to catch people in blitz?

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Lamplite
I’m grinding to blitz 1100
Ziryab

Solid play works best.

borovicka75

If you want to win against idiots, then try to learn some traps. If you want to be good chess player, try to learn chess.

Lamplite
borovicka75 wrote:

If you want to win against idiots, then try to learn some traps. If you want to be good chess player, try to learn chess.

Being good at chess also means being familiar with traps, especially in blitz

medelpad
a3 sicilian
borovicka75

Ok, try

ChessMasteryOfficial

Igor Smirnov (on YT) has many videos on opening traps.

Namonamamamama

Seeing everything like 6-7 moves in advance

MaetsNori
Lamplite wrote:
borovicka75 wrote:

If you want to win against idiots, then try to learn some traps. If you want to be good chess player, try to learn chess.

Being good at chess also means being familiar with traps, especially in blitz

"Traps" are just another way of saying "tactics".

So if anyone wants to get good at those - just work on tactics.

Ziryab

This trap has worked for me at least five times, but Bg5 is already a blunder and White is much worse even if my queen is not captured.

Namonamamamama

should I comment on that game like Gothamchess

Ziryab

Go for it.

Namonamamamama

OK normal game

(at Bishop g5) *claps hands* WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Ladies and gentlemen, you have found yourself a blunder.

(at Nxe4) and he sacrifices... THE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

(at checkmate) what a beautiful checkmate

Ziryab

You’ll find much better analysis by Eric Rosen here: https://lichess.org/study/whCVdUeM

It was after going through that study that I started playing the Stafford Gambit. I’ve won many miniatures with the Stafford, including three in one night in a nine round blitz tournament at my local chess club. The tournament winner was one of my victims. I finished in second place.

The entire game, BTW, is in Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess, a book that presents abbreviated versions of lectures given in London in the 1890s.

X_Bomb88

not really a gamechanging trap especially at my level but people tend to accidentally fork themselves against the london after white goes ne5

ill provide an example later im too lazy to explain it right now