List of chess traps
Chess traps are moves which may tempt a chess opponent to play a losing move. Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening, some traps have occurred often enough that they have acquired names.
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
- Italian Game: Blackburne Shilling Gambit
- Petrov's Defence: Marshall Trap
- Philidor Defence: Légal Trap
- Queen's Gambit Declined:
- Ruy Lopez:
- Sicilian Defence:
- Vienna Gambit: Würzburger Trap
Many more opening traps, all ending in checkmate, are given under Checkmates in the opening.
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