Trap in the Queens Gambit

[DragonBice]

"Uhm..."

[y318]

That is called the Elephant trap

[Jamesster101]

idiot. Couldve move king

[tavogp]

yea i really suck at blitz

[tolerateu]

4:57 wouldn't Knight d6 be better? Checks and gets rid of pesky pawn.

[oneadamtwelve86]

you made quite a few mistakes, but i suck at blitz anyways

[BestToBeAnonymous]

Were you, by any chance, under time pressure? You did make a few mistakes.

[pierreboy5]

I once won a game as White a piece down in this line! That makes me a Grandmaster!

[SomeRandomAllStar]

1:10 is called the elephant trap.

[tavrion]

even if there were no trap, knight takes is a bad move since you need to develop before attacking!

[thedemonkid203]

at 5:16, snagging the knight only included castle.

[27mvp35]

a simple common trap on blitz. or bulet games..wasted 6mins of my time

[holdondota]

instead of c6 i would prefer bd5 (3:27)

[khashayar44]

The trap that you're referring to is very similar to Legal's pseudo-sacrifice. There's a book called The Art of Checkmate by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn that features some very brilliant games in which this kind of pseudo sacrifices are employed.

[yetdeeplyinept]

what a boring, poorly played game lol

[xJMAN07x]

Nice! I'm going to have to try this out...

[0776408609]

thank uuuu

[dsmrider]

Nice i like that counter by black.. imma use it on my friend seems you learn from mistakes blitz is gonna help you analyze the board quicker

[jaydub031]

Very good info for me. Im trying out different openings

[sureshock34ify]

you can't castle man!

[modifikacecom]

c5 does the job better than capturing xd5... at least that's the way I prefer and it helped me many times

[brianLgrant]

nice bro

[jackindobox]

this is called elephant trap.........

[nikjey]

yeah , i am a frequent queens gambit player and i am aware of this position but i dont like it. i wouldnt play BG5 because good player usually will respond C6 or Be7. black will start to develop a strong attack on my queens side.

[peternubreed]

I think after b5 Nb6 is winning the a7 pawn

[Apjooz]

I've heard this many times, but why is the 7th rank rook so deadly? Is it because the pawns are helpless?

[slikdarelic]

memory is definately key... i lose much less now bcuz im tryin to remember previous positions... good vid for some.

da relic

[joecool30000]

yo at 4:55 you should have movedknight to b7,Nb7, that way you would be sacrificing you knight then taking his rook with your rook putting him in check, then taking his other rook on h8. if he moved his rook you would have still gained a piece, you didnt need to defend you king because it was already being defended by your rook. but whatever..good play.

[MrPropapanda]

its fair u lost i guess. he overlooked that trap and u just delayed your death. haha. nice video.

[bastiaan0741]

thanks for sharing

[noble92f]

i wouldnt call it "discovering a trap" i would call it over-looking a vital development, and the consequent results."

Queens gambit is my fav. When moves the e7 pawn, you should have played a3 immediately.

you've discovered one "complication" if you dont. There others, depending on what defense black uses... I always smile when i get to that point, its amusing seeing the look on black face when he/she wishes that pawn werent on a3. :)))

[WestentaschenHolmes]

that's the elephant trap..

[CrownMeKing2]

interesting trap, but wow, i would stop recording to spare myself from showing that hideous play

[Wismer1987]

its called elephant trap and the defense he played was not grunfeld??? it was marshall defense

[ecspade]

The castle was in a variant, not in the actual game. Do try to keep up, instead of focusing on being an ass.

[Zelrio28]

@ecspade Do you ever play standard time control?

[rebelsouljaz]

what the hell? i thought u weren't allowed to castle after moving your king...?

[venato75]

XD, what a joke

[rebelsouljaz]

wut joke? dude u cant, its an illegal move.

[venato75]

r u stupid or what, he EXPLAIN the moves, he don't play the game he played against the other player, that a flash back! XD

[rebelsouljaz]

xD u stupid lol

[venato75]

why?

[rebelsouljaz]

already knew this

[pawncleanup1]

its not a weak opening, its called the grunfeld idiot

[cLiPz0r]

@pawncleanup1 wrong. the grunfeld involves g6, and ONLY if Nc3 has been played, it is not weak. In fact, 1.d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 is a positional mistake.

[rmb04008]

Dude, you didn't discover this trap. Its as old as the hills.

[Vexxnulvijfnul]

you think that this is new?

[bastiaan0741]

. Anyways, elephant; havent seen it in a while since i play differently myself, but a must-know. Thanks for sharing.

[twistedflamingo1]

i found a pretty cool one playing today check it out. 1.d4e62.e4d53.e5c54.c3Nc65.Nf3­Qb66.Bd3cxd47.Nxd4Nxd48.cxd4Qx­d49.Bb5+Bd710.Qxd4Bxb511.Nc3a6­12.Nxb5axb513.O-ORb814.Qb6 he resigned after that

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[munik897]

good vid ive gotten into games wit some of these exact situations i could have used this a while ago

[subatom101]

this is the oldest trick in the book

[Tazbod]

That trap's called the Elephant Trap.

[adi11235]

Hehe, everyone seems to know this trap. Or those who don't generally don't see a way to 'gain' the pawn in the first place.

[CUB3FR34K]

Elephant trap... jrobi has a vid

[shinyninetales999]

@CUB3FR34K So does Kevin from thechesswebsite

[upanddown1001]

Blitz: mistakes happen

Thanks for the info about the trap

[kerver73]

To be honest,this was a great trap from black....at the beginning i thought this guy is a brilliant GM,..but he makes many awfull mistakes...

Anyway,thanks for the great analysis!!

[Gisibert]

After exchanging the bishops on c4 white is - in my opinion - not only better: after simple move Kd2 the black Knight on c1 has no field to escape and so white wins the game easily. Am I wrong?

[Chaos1286]

this is called the Elephant trap... lol

nice vid though....

[raptriforcee]

Elephant trap.

[bakshirohini]

this the elephant's trap!!!

[mbenoni7]

This is probably the most well known trap in all opening theory, other than Fool's and Scholar's mates.

[ssminopoopy]

this is a great video, I am a recreational player trying to make it to the top :)...this video really helps me out alot!

[LosAztecas]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 - is known as the Marshall Defence.

[ecspade]

It transposes on move 3 into the QGD. No reason not to call it Queen's Gambit.

[eisaatappaa]

That trap is called Elephant trap. The actual life goes that bishop checks and queen blocks check then king takes bishop and is up a piece and there is no way for white to defend his queen taken down.

[timbo4bimbo]

very good trap :) always look like you don't know what you've done when you give the queen away then your opponent takes straight away ;)

[bearpickle]

funny video... most all of us make those dumb blunders

[dprimetime69]

lame. he's not that good. 10 seconds is on the trap

[pimpachu]

When he pushes the pawn to b5, knight to b4 at the 5minute mark would put a lot of pressure on his rooks. You'd get both rooks for the price of the knight, if he takes it with his a7 pawn.

[Xanthos90]

At 5:00 you could have gone up a piece again by playing the knight to B7 attacking the rook and then either taking it or forcing it to move and then taking the pawn with your rook moving it to the 7 rank.

[Alexanderanchik]

Lol dudes thats trap in queen gambit is so old.......besides in every chess book of beginings there is such a variation

[imluvinyourmum]

i hate it so much when black declines the queens gambit, basicaly white is on the back foot with an oddly placed pawn right from the start

[Beardybong]

2:43 "oops" haha. Nice video, thanks.

[Taffytyrann]

Nothing new, i'ts called the Queen's gambit Declined Elephant trap (according to Jrobichess)

[1337Tart]

That first trap isn't very well known, even among longtime Queen's Gambit players. I beat an expert level player with it in a 60 minute timed game. Very useful

[eagleman209]

man im nervous casue i suck at chess my rating is only 900 but tomorrow im playing in world open.

[eagleman209]

wow i see it now its cool

[eagleman209]

guys it depends on how u know that opning i like french and quesn gambit and know how to use them

[MAfr3ak]

Nf6 isn't a bad move. its called the Marshall varition of the QGD

[blunderking]

its not a false assumtion. e6 is considered better than nf6 because he prefers a pawn at d5 where it influences the center more. its a small advantage but many small advantages could turn into a big one:)

[srn347]

At 3:19 You could have used the bishop to force trade of bishops by forking the bishop and knight while guarded by the rook and knight on c4(not the explosive).

[idlenessss]

nf6 wasnt a bad move. its a completely normal move. it might not be as commonly played at top level than other moves, but its logical and white has no tactical refutation. the number one killer in chess is making false assummptions. Its interesting that you were frusterated that you couldnt win with your extra pawn when, as you realized later YOU should have lost a whole piece! he even had some compensation for his pawn minus. Chess is a lot more difficult and complex than you seem to think.

[ecspade]

nf6 is bad because it lets white set up a classic pawn center after 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. e4 Nf6. there's no reason for black to concede a center like this in a double queen's pawn opening. I'm not sure why you think you know how difficult or complex I think chess is.

[brainofjikir]

Im not sure why but ive always eard from everyone ever that setting up the classic pawn center on black with that variation is exploitable, i wish i knew how but i don't :(

[mattbastardsen]

@ecspade Indeed, Marshall's 2...d5 has long been recognized as bad, but the refutation is not the immediate 4.e4, as Alekhine pointed out after playing this move against Marshall himself (following 4...Nf6 white defends e4 and then gets hit with 5...e5! equalizing for Black. Best is 4.Nf3, taking firm control of e5, after which e2-e4 cannot reasonably be prevented, e.g. 4...Bf5 5.Qb3 or 5.Nbd2 are both very good for White.

Alekhine pointed out that even 4,g3 would have refuted Black's play.

[cilraycil]

cool

[theuppercut]

at 5:00 why wouldn't you check him?

[ecspade]

i'm looking for more permanent squares for my pieces, and checking on d6 doesn't put me anywhere I want to stay long term.

e5 is a good square for that knight.

[theuppercut]

yeah but it wouldn't have let him castle D:

[postmasterw00t]

@ecspade

it would have stopped him from castling tho which could provide an advantage

[lflr4lnco]

at 4:58 u shulda moved your knight to b6 because the threatening pawn is pinned. If he took your knight, you would have gotten both his rooks

[brrrdman85]

No because then he plays rook b8 and there is nowhere for the knight to go.

[brrrdman85]

Cool trap. Nice videos.

[jj32768]

Haha, I remember my dad showing that trap to me when I was a little kid. It brings back good memories.

That's pretty neat to discover a "book" trap (this is in any book on the Queen's Gamit) via your own experiences rather than actually reading a book.

Take care

[ecspade]

yeah I remember seeing this someplace. I don't have any Queen's gambit books in particular, so I'm not sure exactly where I've seen it.

thanks for your comments on my videos. I'm enjoying yours very much as well!

If you ever want a game on FICS, my handle is magnumpawn.