List of chess traps
The term chess trap refers to a move which may tempt the opponent to play a losing move.
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:
- 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
Many more opening traps, all ending in checkmate, are given under Checkmates in the opening.
See also
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