List Of Chess Traps - Wikipedia

Jump to content

Contents

move to sidebar hide

• (Top)
• 1 List of chess traps
• 2 See also
• 3 References

• Article
• Talk

English

• Read
• Edit
• View history

Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions

• Read
• Edit
• View history

General

• What links here
• Related changes
• Upload file
• Permanent link
• Page information
• Cite this page
• Get shortened URL
• Download QR code

Print/export

• Download as PDF
• Printable version

In other projects

• Wikidata item

Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "List of chess traps" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

In chess, a trap is a move which tempts the opponent to play a bad move.[1] Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening, some traps have occurred often enough that they have acquired names.[citation needed] If the opponent sees through the trap, it can backfire.[1]

List of chess traps

[edit]

Ordered by chess opening:

• Albin Countergambit: Lasker Trap
• Blackmar–Diemer Gambit: Halosar Trap
• Bogo-Indian Defence: Monticelli Trap
• Budapest Gambit: Kieninger Trap
• Englund Gambit 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
  • Fishing Pole Trap
• Sicilian Defence:
  • Magnus Smith Trap
  • Siberian Trap
• Vienna Gambit: Würzburger Trap

See also

[edit]

• Gambit
• Fool's mate
• Scholar's mate
• Swindle (chess)

References

[edit]

1. ^ a b Horowitz, I. A. (1971). All About Chess. New York: Macmillan. pp. 46–47. LCCN 75131476.

v t e Chess
Outline	Chess theory Chess titles Grandmaster Computer chess glossary matches engines software Correspondence chess FIDE Glossary Online chess Premove Internet chess server list Rating system world rankings norms Variants List World records
Equipment	Chess set chessboard Dubrovnik chess set Staunton chess set Chess pieces King Queen Rook Bishop Knight Pawn Fairy Chess clock Chess table Score sheets
History	Timeline Versus de scachis Scachs d'amor Göttingen manuscript Charlemagne chessmen Lewis chessmen Romantic chess Hypermodernism Soviet chess school Top player comparison Geography of chess Africa South Africa China Europe Azerbaijan Armenia Spain India List of chess players amateurs female grandmasters Women in chess Transgender people in chess Chess museums Bobby Fischer Center Gökyay Association Chess Museum World Chess Hall of Fame Notable games Immortal Game Evergreen Game Opera Game Game of the Century Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 Kasparov versus the World
Rules	Castling Cheating in chess doping Check Checkmate Draw by agreement Fifty-move rule Perpetual check Stalemate Threefold repetition En passant Pawn promotion Time control Fast chess Touch-move rule White and Black
Terms	Blunder Chess notation algebraic descriptive PGN annotation symbols symbols in Unicode Fianchetto Gambit Key square King walk Open file Half-open file Outpost Pawns backward connected doubled isolated passed Swindle Tempo Transposition Trap
Tactics	Artificial castling Battery Alekhine's gun Block Checkmate patterns Combination Decoy Deflection Desperado Discovered attack Double check Fork Interference Overloading Pawn storm Pin Sacrifice Queen sacrifice Skewer Undermining Windmill X-ray Zwischenzug
Strategy	Compensation Exchange the exchange Initiative first-move advantage Middlegame Pawn structure Hedgehog Isolated Queen's Pawn Maróczy Bind Minority attack Piece values Prophylaxis School of chess
Openings	Flank opening Benko Opening Bird's Opening Dunst Opening English Opening Grob's Attack Nimzowitsch–Larsen Attack Zukertort Opening King's Indian Attack Réti Opening King's Pawn Game Alekhine's Defence Caro–Kann Defence French Defence Modern Defence Nimzowitsch Defence Open Game Four Knights Game Giuoco Piano Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ponziani Opening Ruy Lopez Semi-Italian Opening Scotch Game Two Knights Defence Vienna Game Owen's Defence Pirc Defence Austrian Attack Scandinavian Defence Sicilian Defence Alapin Dragon/Accelerated Dragon Najdorf Scheveningen Queen's Pawn Game Colle System Dutch Defence English Defence Indian Defence Benoni Defence Modern Benoni Bogo-Indian Defence Budapest Gambit Catalan Opening Grünfeld Defence King's Indian Defence Nimzo-Indian Defence Old Indian Defence Queen's Indian Defence London System Richter–Veresov Attack Queen's Gambit Accepted Declined Slav Defence Semi-Slav Defence Chigorin Defence Torre Attack Trompowsky Attack Other List of ECO codes Theory table List of chess gambits Irregular Bongcloud Attack Fool's mate Scholar's mate
Endgames	Bishop and knight checkmate King and pawn vs. king Opposite-coloured bishops Pawnless endgame Queen and pawn vs. queen Queen vs. pawn Queen vs. rook Rook and bishop vs. rook Rook and pawn vs. rook Lucena position Philidor position Strategy fortress opposition Tarrasch rule triangulation Zugzwang Study Tablebase Two knights endgame Wrong bishop Wrong rook pawn
Tournaments	List of strong chess tournaments Chess Olympiad Women Olympics Olympic Esports Series World Chess Championship List Candidates Tournament Chess World Cup FIDE Grand Prix Other world championships Women Team Rapid Blitz Junior Youth Senior Amateur Chess composition Solving Computer chess championships CCC CSVN North American TCEC WCCC WCSCC
Art and media	Caïssa Chess aesthetics Chess in the arts early literature film novels paintings poetry short stories Chess books opening books endgame literature Oxford Companion Chess libraries Chess newspaper columns Chess periodicals
Related	Arbiter Chess boxing Chess club Chess composer Chess engine AlphaZero Deep Blue Leela Chess Zero Mittens Stockfish Chess problem glossary joke chess Chess prodigy Elo rating system Mechanical Turk Simultaneous exhibition Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments Solving chess
Chess portal Category

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_chess_traps&oldid=1290518058" Categories:

• Chess theory
• Chess traps

Hidden categories:

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles needing additional references from February 2025
• All articles needing additional references
• All articles with unsourced statements
• Articles with unsourced statements from February 2025

Search Search Toggle the table of contents List of chess traps 5 languages Add topic