Chess Traps

Chess becomes fun when we learn how to survive the opening and stop falling into our opponents’ cheap tactical tricks.And that’s what this book is about! By understanding opening play and how to exploit tactical ideas, we turn the tables on our opponents. Now they will be the ones getting outmanoeuvred, tricked, trapped and pushed off the board!Chess Opening Traps for Kids is a serious course on how to play the opening, illustrated with memorable and entertaining examples. By focusing on 100 key themes, Graham Burgess explains how to use opening tricks to our advantage. Every opening features hidden dangers for both players, so we need to avoid pitfalls while making full use of tactics to achieve the opening goals of purposeful development and central control.Most of the 100 sections feature a basic example followed by a more complex one. Some of the traps have claimed grandmaster victims, while others are more likely to arise in junior chess. Either way, the aim is to learn the theme so well that you can use it when similar opportunities arise in your own games. A series of exercises at the end of the book allows you to check that you have grasped the main points. Throughout the book there are tips on how to spot tactics in advance and advice on opening strategy.

• ASIN: 1911465279

Fireside Chess Library In the first completely instructional book ever written on chess openings, National Master Bruce Pandolfini teaches players how to take charge of the game's crucial opening phase. Of the three traditional phases of chess play -- the opening, the middle-game and the endgame -- the opening is the phase average players confront most often. Unfortunately, though, many openings are not completed successfully, partly because until now most opening instruction has consisted of tables of tournament level moves that offer no explanations for the reasons behind them. Consequently, these classical opening patterns can serve as little more than references to the average player. In Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps, Bruce Pandolfini uses his unique "crime and punishment" approach to provide all the previously missing explanation, instruction, practical analyses, and much, much more. The book consists of 202 short "openers" typical of average players, arranged according to the classical opening variations and by level of difficulty. Each example includes: * the name of the overriding tactic * the name of the opening * a scenario that sets up the tactic to be learned * an interpretation that explains why the loser went wrong, how he could have avoided the trap, and what ...

• Brand: The House of Staunton
• ASIN: 0671656902
Part No: B0008SS

This is a rich storehouse of Chess 'crimes.' Sometimes the villain is thwarted: more often he gets away with his nefarious deeds. But, in either event, the tales, and their telling, will prove to be instructive and vastly entertaining.

• Color: White
• ASIN: 0671210416
Part No: 9780671210410

A modernized collection of 300 traps in the chess openings used today. The dead wood of traps in unused openings has been cut away and replaced try new traps in the latest openings. Each trap complete in itself-an introductory explanation, opening moves, diagram of position when trap is sprung, concluding moves to check-mate, or decisive win of material. All classes of players, weak or strong, need the vital information in this book to avoid pitfalls or catch an unwary opponent napping.

• Brand: Ishi Press
• ASIN: 4871875768
Part No: B0210IS

In Winning Chess Traps nationally-renowned chess coach Robert M. Snyder takes his Chess for Everyone book a step further by covering sixty-four additional opening traps. Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of the most important openings.Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern recognition.Challengea at various points to find the best move.Written for the beginner to intermediate player.Traps arranged by opening to help students improve knowledge of the most important openings.Traps contain important tactical themes designed to improve pattern recognition.Challengea at various points to find the best move.Written for the beginner to intermediate player.

• Brand: Brand: iUniverse, Inc.
• ASIN: 0595453457

Traps lurk in every stage of a chess game, but they occur especially often in the opening. In this instructional volume, the two internationally recognized masters of the game cover the traps that can be expected after the double advance of the white d-pawn. For every possible opening after 1.d4—including the Queen’s Gambit or the King’s Indian Defense—there are explanatory texts detailing the most typical trap motifs. Designed to increase combinative ability and systematically expand opening repertoire, this is an essential guide to setting and avoiding opening traps.

• ASIN: 3283010056
Part No: B0010OE

Though they appear to be normal moves, opening traps are deft maneuvers that almost inevitably lead to a rapid win for the trapper. This handy volume details the various types of traps available during a King’s Pawn Game and explains how to use them as well as how to avoid getting caught by them. The Italian, French, Spanish, and Sicilian trips—among many others—are explained with helpful texts that detail their typical motifs.

• Brand: Edition Olms
• ASIN: 3283010048

All classes of players, weak or strong, need the vital information in this book to avoid pitfalls or to catch the unwary napping. Each of the 300 traps discussed in this collection -- introductory explanation, opening moves, diagram of position when trap is sprung, concluding moves to checkmate or win material -- is complete in itself. Winning Chess Traps is a thorough and practical book, a classic that belongs in any basic chess library.

• Brand: Brand: CHESS REVIEW/DAVID MCKAY
• ASIN: 0679140379

The chess player’s guide to opening traps, tricks and quick kills.This is the chess player’s venom to defend against popular traps, pitfalls, and quick kills faced by beginning and intermediate chess players right out of the opening—and how to use these clever traps against unwary opponents as well! Opening traps are the single most crippling stratagem used by tough opponents, that is, for unprepared players. This book, completely redesigned and formerly titled Survive & Beat Annoying Chess Openings, shows players how to handle these traps as both Black and White to defend and to attack the annoying variations opponents will often choose instead of the well-known main lines. For key openings, the authors provide two separate remedies to appeal to both the attacking and positional player.  Unique charts and graphics make learning these remedies easy and fun!

• ASIN: 1580423728

There is no easier way to win a game of chess than by luring your opponent into a devious trap. Similarly, there's nothing worse than being the one on the receiving end. Tricks, traps and swindles lie in wait everywhere, especially so in the opening phase of the game, and many battles can be won or saved simply through learning and mastering the most important ones. In this instructive and fun book, Gary Lane looks back though chess history and at modern times to create a list of his own favourite tricks and traps. Selecting from hundreds of contenders, Lane examines a variety of factors in order to decide which ideas are most worthy of inclusion. Discover the stories behind the most cunning tricks and traps of all time; how you can utilize them to score easy wins; and how you can avoid being tricked yourself.

• Brand: Brand: Everyman Chess
• ASIN: 1857445775
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