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Category: Chess traps

Traps in the game of chess.

Organized by chess opening:

  • Albin Countergambit – Lasker Trap
  • Blackmar-Diemer Gambit – Halosar Trap
  • Bogo-Indian Defense – Monticelli 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
  • Sicilian Defence – Magnus Smith Trap, Siberian Trap
  • Vienna Gambit – Würzburger Trap

Twenty-four additional opening traps, all ending in mate, are given under Checkmate.


Articles in category "Chess traps"

There are 15 articles in this section of this category.

B

  • Blackburne Shilling Gambit

C

  • Checkmate

E

  • Elephant Trap

H

  • Halosar Trap

L

  • Lasker Trap

L cont.

  • Légal Trap

M

  • Magnus Smith Trap
  • Marshall Trap
  • Monticelli Trap
  • Mortimer Trap

N

  • Noah's Ark Trap

R

  • Rubinstein Trap

S

  • Siberian Trap

T

  • Tarrasch Trap

W

  • Würzburger Trap

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