5 Best Chess Opening Traps For Black Against 1.d4

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@EarthSurferUSA]

Again, I have GameTop "Grand Master chess 3", and at the "easy adult" level, (3 more levels to GM), it is not falling for any of these 5 traps, (your engine makes bad moves). Does that tell me that most a YT on line teachers would get crushed by this games easy adult level? Will you try it? It is no joke. But it laughs at all the moves I see on YT. Doug in Michigan

[@artjewett3629]

it's Rxa3

[@thileeban4117]

Answer to the bonus trap puzzle- Black - Qf6 attacking the rook White - Pc3 Black - Rxa3 White - Nxa3 Black - Qxc3+ White - Qd2 Black - Qxa1+ White - Qd1 Black - Qxc3+ White - Qd2 Black - Qxa3 and so on... By playing these moves, you gain a full rook and a knight by trading a rook for bishop

[@enriquecubarrubia8821]

Same as I did BUT Black's 5th move is simply Qc3+, NOT QxC3+ because the pawn was already taken in Black's 3rd move. Moreover, in the exchange, Black took a Bishop, a Knight, Rook and a Pawn while giving up his Rook. Thus, Black has a net gain of a Bishop, a Knight and a Pawn.

[@綾裹石]

Very good explanation on these Benoni line. Games of Mikhal Tal are also good references.

[@michaeldunagan8268]

I think I may have better luck with this one: 1 ... Rxa3 2. Nxa3 Qa5+ 3. Qd2 Qxa3 This should win the bishop and a Knight for a Rook. Should be able to take the C5 Pawn the next move so you'll end up having a bishop and a night in a pawn for a Rook. You'll also have given white an obliterated Queen side Pawn structure. I generally don't like losing my rooks to two minor pieces but I think with the quant structure of White's Queen side I might be able to have a goal of it with someone similarly rated to me

[@michaeldunagan8268]

@@jamesk479 As I've discovered chess theory by reading and by playing personal games in the internet age, say the last 15 to 20 years- -I can make a blanket statement any longer that I always prefer two Rooks plus one pawn over a Rook and two minor pieces (nominal material count even at eleven value points). In fact, I have been shown that the Josh Waitzkin preferring Bishops over Knights does not have the efficacy as much in blitz games in the last five years I've been playing online. If the board is clouded with staggered pawns, I can see we're having two minor pieces over a Rook in it on can be a better option. However, because I'm a very low rated player, the battering-ram of two Rooks: then if you have a Queen to go along with them then all the better; it's just a crutch I lean on as much as I can.

[@pranavbhalerao9379]

Hey thank you for telling such wonderful traps of 1.d4 for black.😄.Can you make a video on wing gambit please Smrinov?

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks for the suggestion, Pranav. We will make a note of it.

[@fuscofabio9868]

Possible answer: 6) ... ; RxB. If : 7) KxR; then ...Qa5+ capturing the Knight. Now We have two minor pieces for a Rook, and a winning position.

[@leszekryniec7054]

Knight is N, but OK

[@TheRocking789]

Not the best one, you lose 2 point

[@lexsoft3969]

Recently I used the last example trap of Englund defence in blitz. It's against low rated opponents, so yeah... it worked. 😀

[@farouqbaiti4315]

1.Qf6 c3 2.Rxa3 Nxa3 3.Qxc3+ Qd2 4.Qxa1+ Qd1 5.Qxa2 Or 1.Qf6 c3 2.Rxa3 Qd2 3.Ra5 Qd4 4.Qxd4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Rc1 6.Bxc5

[@Harryjay6]

Perfect timing with this one. I've been playing my friend daily and d4 is his main opening move.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Cool! Hope he falls into your trap.

[@jonniriepponen6248]

Same

[@malcolmforsythe1156]

Me too and my son fell for it, he loves d4

[@davidamrama]

Question from a noob, at 2:15... why is taking the pawn on C5 deadly?

[@rituparna7059]

Not deadly! Just positional inaccuracy.

[@bggines_1260]

Really appreciate all of your videos especially that 2 Knights defense against an italian opening! At least 60% winning chances whenever i encounter it!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks for comments. It is great that like 2 knights defense.

[@nupfe]

Oh really? Thanks for mention it. I will check out the video. I've learnt recently the Rousseau Gambit from this channel and I'm totally happy with it. I guess it matches well to the 2 Knight defense.

[@slstats7948]

Thank you❤️ From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰😍

[@davidauthier2930]

Félicitations de la part d’un débutant très, très médiocre mais qui apprécie tes vidéos et tes ÉNORMES compétences. 👍👍👍

[@legoatjames3827]

U r the best teacher with the best vids. These traps are insane

[@hamidrezasepahian7608]

at time 4:38 white before taking the queen(d6*c7), at first Da4+ & after Dc6(Dd7 or Fd7? because D*e4), white D*c6. however the white has one more pawn but the black light riders develop & black has a better positon.

[@Wilker_uwu]

for the tactic puzzle, how about (spoilers ahead) ...Qa5+, if Qd2 { Qxd2+, Nxd2 Rxa3 winning a lot of space control }. if Nd2 { Qxa3, if Qc1 { Qxc1, Rxc1 Rxa2 winning more material } if Nb1 { Qa5+, if not Qd2 { Bxc5 or Qxc5 should be fine }. }. }. did i do well?

[@suryavoroy3527]

Qf6 in benoni to trap rook was awesome, QGD trap important, queens indian Qf6 idea with Bh6 and Knight sack is important

[@justgames4972]

Rxa3, Nxa4, Qa5+

[@mikekeenan8450]

Rxa3, and after Nxa3 Black plays Qa5 ch, picking up two minor pieces for the rook.

[@КаналЧиллиПепФакты]

Igor Smirnof is simply the best

[@stevesidare2493]

For the first trap, I used to play the immediate c5 and e6 in my earlier days without really knowing what I was doing. I didn't know how to follow up. Now I do!

[@leenachristo1813]

Bxc4 and Qa4 fork

[@Reactionz_15]

My 395 elo appreciated this video even I understood these traps, looked up the video after a friend played D4 and I wasn’t ready 🤣🤣

[@Radman_web_design]

Best Chess Opening Traps For Black Against king gumbit please!!!!

[@mojtabaahmadimotlagh8606]

Thanks

[@josephsalmonte4995]

Absolutely brilliant video 👍

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@artjewett3629]

Qf6

[@markj4202]

I think the best sequence for the puzzle at 12:30 is Qf6 then c3 RxB NxR QxC3+. Qd2 and finally QxN.

[@VisNZ]

Not quite - Qf6, c3, RXB NXR, QXc3+ Qd2, QXR+ QD1, QC3+ QD2, QxN winning all 3 minor pieces and a pawn for a rook

[@JamesHouzvicka-ur4tc]

Great just great,thks

[@seand.5535]

in the old benoni white can actually trap blacks queen, the video maker cleverly hid this (to overhype his cheap trick advice) by separating the solution to the trap from the setup, notice the pawn structure from 1:30 to 10:21 change, in the original position the pawns block Bb4

[@taxi.dq.7313]

... Qf6 attacking rook if Bb2? Qxb2 if Nc3? Qxc3+ if c3, Rxa3, Nxa3 Qxc3+, Qd2 Qxa1+

[@davidbatchelder85]

black can go Qf6, attacking the rook. Or Ra8 takes Ba3, white takes with the knight, black then goes Qa4 check, white queen blocks, Blacks Q take the knight on a3 two pieces for the rook, or rook and knight or bishop

[@mikolajsetkowski6645]

Is it rook captures a3 knight recaptures queen A5 forking King and the knight?

[@nelsondelapena4394]

6. bxc5....bxb 7. Qa5+

[@ROBLOX_DIAGNOSTICS]

Can we even premove in a tournament?

[@UmarAlFarooq]

1:10 what if white brings bishop to support the pawn?

[@TheAnshuman1974]

Puzzle: Qf6 attacking the rook. Nc3 fails to Qxc3+ forking the king, rook and the bishop. And then Qd2 Qxa1+ Qd1 Qc3+ Qd2 Qxa3 wipes out the queen side. If after Qf6, white tries to block with pawn to c3, then Rxa3 Nxa3 Qxc3+ forking the rook, knight and the king. And after Qd2 which is the only legal move, Qxa1+ gets the rook also. And then Qd1 Qc3+ Qd2 Qxa3 gobbles up the knight as well, also attacking the c pawn twice, the next move being Bxc5.

[@charlesavery7372]

what happens after Qf6 Nd2??

[@hosamkhaled5577]

After Qf6 Nd2 then Rxa3

[@c.cmemphisai8748]

This was a great video

[@cipher6293]

How to counter the final trap

[@ivanhartmann1432]

why is the move 3.dXc5 (1.d4,Nf3; 2.c4,c5; 3.dXc5,...) deadly?

[@remoengels2085]

I watched this and i used my own creativity to use this trap as white. I was really happy it worked. Only for me it was mid game, after my rook came in to play he resigned.

[@trailerpark948]

trap 3_ white moves Bishop to D2 after losing his Queen. Black Queen trapped.

[@gkristof6504]

I have a question. Which type of player are you? E4 or D4? Or something other?

[@felixtritschler5096]

Actually the suggested c5-variants are refuted by d5. White just pushes the pawn and the resulting position is terrible. The engine does ok and probably good players, too, but I just can't handle this white d5 pawn directly in my face with no space to even develop. Yikes ...

[@Fripplingakarhano]

2:12 can someone explain to me why

[@МаксимА-б5ъ]

Шикарный английский! Как будто не успеваю переводить за носителем.

[@josephjeweljoyxlb3555]

Qc4

[@CedricBelanger-314]

On the first trap, what if the opponent doesn't accept the gambit

[@WCFAsyncQueryable]

At 3:09, why not playing Queen to A5 chess and then capturing the knight?

[@marcomuller5985]

because white can defend it with the knight

[@junfolledo2652]

Nb5-c3 will cover the check and avoid knight capture

[@Blinkers2007GameDev]

I usually try to go for a king’s Indian defense, which is not bad, but I’m going to try the old beloni

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I am sure beginners like me will ask, "Why not this move?" and it would be overbearing I am sure. But I do see one that looks valid to me at min 4:10. Instead of black Knight e4, the queen can come out to a5 to put the king in check, and then snag the white knight who wondered off like a bad little pony. White would have to defend the king with the knight,queen or bishop, but it looks like a pretty easy nighty night knight. :) Now that is about as far as I can think ahead. :) How do you think it would play from there, (if you have a min)? Doug in Michigan says thank you.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Yea, his way worked pretty good too. :)

[@puzzician]

Defensive moves are often far more resourceful than you think possible. In this case, N1c3 (first rank Knight to the rescue!!) blocks check, follows strong opening principles, and *defends the wayward b5 Knight* all at the same time. Further, there's no real pressure because Black playing Nxc3 is met by Nxc3 and the pin is broken by Bd2 and it's Black who has egg on his face!

[@victornatanomasagcajr.3729]

B×C5 -- B×B ,QA5+ then Q will capture the bishop

[@kmarasin]

5:46 Keeping up with the latest theory I see

[@tandinghaotrephonbroadrick8362]

3:18 you can also go qa5 winning the pony with check

[@00lovepeace00]

No because the pony can go back kc3 blocking the check

[@tandinghaotrephonbroadrick8362]

@@00lovepeace00 ohhhh ok now i get it thx

[@MiraandLul_actingsiblings]

Yeah, he can go Nc3 to block.

[@gaurishanker2256]

B6

[@VladMysla]

Qf6

[@RickCarter1776]

The move is Qf6 attacking the rook which while it seems protectable with c3, isn't really as white simply take the bishop on a3 as the Knight is overworked protecting both the c3 pawn and the bishop on a3, if the Knight take the rook on a3 then Qxc3 check forcing white to protect the King with Qd2 and black takes the rook on a1 with another check. Forcing white to then choose between protecting the King with either Qd1 or Kb1 which simply loses the Knight as well.

[@noobiesensei6281]

Nb1*. Kb1 = King to b1. Also, after Qxa1+, the pawn on a2 is still there, preventing you from outright taking the knight after the opposing queen blocks the check. I still believe that tactic is the right one, since black ends up with an extra bishop compared to white for a pawn. You can even just trade queens to make the extra material that much powerful.

[@thileeban4117]

@@noobiesensei6281 dude after black plays Qa1 check and white plays Qd1, then black will go for Qc3 again and this time taking the knight

[@bidyutchandranath5445]

I think Bxc5 Bxc5 Qa5+ then we can eat the bishop also and we are one pawn up

[@rjanzen3810]

Hmm.. 1st one, why not Qd2; Qxa1; Bb2 penning in the white Q. White trades a B for a Q right??

[@damkmankm3755]

Qxa2

[@ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣΣΙΔΕΡΗΣ-δ9γ]

rook takes bishop then if knight takes rook queen to a 5 check winning the knight so getting two pieces ofr the rook

[@prplt]

tried this for the first time today, white just gave up after Qf6 😂

[@letsplaychess702]

ra3 ans

[@mikekalish6796]

On the first trap, what if white plays bishop to e3 on his third move? That seems like an obvious move and I don't see how the trap could work.

[@NotABirdd]

Blocks the e pawn from moving, if you look at the engine, after Bishop to e3 black is already better

[@mikekalish6796]

@@NotABirdd It's been a while since I looked at this, but I think I meant bishop to d2 rather than e3.

[@bennibangun7941]

Qa5

[@jonniriepponen6248]

What if in the first trap the opponent won't take instead pushes

[@dreambigcricketfantasy1747]

Exactly And white gains more space advantage and central control... Black starts sweating...

[@maduchizaram1728]

In the last trap.. why not play kd2 instead of wasting time moving the bishop to castle??

[@micahnguyen2k]

Even with that move black can escape. After c4, kd2, bb4, and bb2, the queen can take on a2 since the pin prevents the white knight from protecting the pawn

[@sushamaborkar6657]

Qf6,c3,rxa3,nxa3,qxc3

[@watchmanling]

I don't want others know this channel

[@stevenharrison1213]

Really appreciate these videos bit he goes too quick for me. I know we've got the pause button but it's annoying

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I am new here,---but that Gothic guy drives me nuts. You can just tell that his life off the chess board is a disaster. They all bought lava lamps. :)

[@Ephod1179BC]

What if he declines and moves the pawn to d5?, what happens.?

[@Ephod1179BC]

This is the most useless traps I've ever seen. Terrible chess teacher

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I will tell you the moves my game will do will crush these 5 traps,---at the easy adult level, which is hard. I have yet to see any YT "chess instructor" that is good enough to beat GameTop "Grand Master chess 3", at the easy adult level. And there are 3 more levels to GM. I don't think any of these on line tutors could beat it consistently at the easy adult level. None of them will even indicate to me that they will check it out. They are just here for the YT money, and as long as they are better than the brain dead masses, they could care less to show us how good they are against a hard opponent like my computer game. I can see they always pick easy programs to show us tactics. My game does not fall for any of them. I am on my own. Doug in Michigan

[@RajaKumar-cp6jg]

Qf6-c3 RxB NxR Qxc3+ Qd2 QxR+ Qd1 Qc3+ Qd1 QxN

[@santoshmahurkar1717]

Your trap are deadly but if someone doesn't know what do if he don't play the move you tell us he will lose match

[@santoshmahurkar1717]

Yes

[@BAYANJARGALDOLGOR]

Black Qc3 white Pf6 Black Rh6 white NH6 Black Qf6 is winning move

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 5 Best Chess Opening Traps Against 1,d4 00:09 Trap-1: Old Benoni 1...c5 01:38 ELO 3000 players fall for this trap! 02:00 Trap-2: From the Benoni Defense 04:48 Trap-3: Englund Gambit 1...e5 05:46 Why this trap will work? 07:12 Trap-4: From the Queen's Gambit Declined 08:45 Trap-5: Unknown trap in the Queen's Indian Defense 09:59 The Evil Laugh 10:21 What if White tries to trap you? 11:43 Bonus trap: Puzzle for you

[@peterreid9769]

D5 kills these.

[@Martin_Neal]

12:33 ... Qa5+ Qd2 could lead to an immediate trade of Queens.

[@ianestur9043]

Rook takes bishop

[@mensaman55]

the Evil laugh at 10:13...thinking you've trapped the R in the corner....well black has not trapped the R....simply move Kn over to D4. blocks the diagonal and is guarded by the Queen.

[@damkmankm3755]

This defense loses the Kn tho.

[@TheAtheist22]

Those traps don't really work. Do they?

[@ramagrawal4854]

Qf3 is winning after c6 then Rxa3

[@ramagrawal4854]

Qf3 - c3 - Rxa3

[@rroy5584]

F8 and then same story

[@attesaarinen4311]

You blunder irl when you don't use dark mode :(

[@anilchakravorty8054]

Rook cannot be attacked by queen, white can defend with their knight, with queen supporting the knight. This trap is not workable.

[@damkmankm3755]

White just loses the knight then.

[@rustamdj979]

Qf6 c3 Ra3 Na3 Qc3:)

[@aadhilayyoob8795]

Best move for white must be Knight d2 because that only loses the Bishop while this sequence loses everything on the queen side

[@echochamber8350]

10:24 - that doesn't make any sense at all. Why would white move the queen? I'd rather protect my Rook with the Bishop (Bishop to B2) and simultaneously counter-attack the black Queen.

[@damkmankm3755]

Black can just take the bishop then.

[@checkmate7311]

Newbie here.

[@timetraveller2818]

what's your rating?

[@atulpratap2847]

subtitle 😏

[@gabororban7865]

Qf6, Nd2; Rxa3

[@aadhilayyoob8795]

Nice move.. but there's another move, Qf6, attacking the rook, and if he plays C3, you take the Bishop with the rook. He can't take back with the Knight as that loses a lot of material after QxC3 with a fork and takes both the rook and the Knight with consecutive checks. So you get a free Bishop without losing one if the opponent plays the best moves. You'll get a while lotta material if your opponent takes back with the knight

[@chesslife2345]

Qf6. Boom

[@KurtvonLaven0]

Qf6

[@thuantranminh2043]

Qf6