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700 Opening Traps

Bill Wall

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.f4 Nh6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bd3 c5 7.f5 e6 [better 

is 7…cxd4 8.Nxd4 Nxf5] 8.f6 Qxf6?? 9.Bg5, trapping the Queen (Wall - 

Brooks, Thailand 1974)

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.Bc4 e5 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Ng5+ Ke8 

8.Ne6 wins (Gross - Geiger, Germany 1990)

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Bc4 Nd7? [best is 4…Nf6] 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7?? 

[Black could resist better with 5…Kf8] 6.Ng5+ Kf6 7.Qf3 mate (Arnason - 

Pribyl, Latvia 1990)

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.Bc4 Bg4 5.Nxf7+ Kf8 6.Bb3 Bf6 7.h3 Bd7 8.e5 

Bg7 9.Ng5 threatening 10.Qf3+ and winning more material (Laszlo - Biro, 

Budapest 1940)

1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Nd7 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.d4 a5? [5…Nb6 or 5…Ngf6 

would be better choices] 6.Ng5 [or even 6.Bxf7+ now] 6…Nh6 7.Bxf7+ 

Nxf7 8.Ne6, winning the Queen (Klabunde - Snyder, Denver 1983)

1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c3 Nxe4?? 4.Qa4+ and 5.Qxe4 (Welling - Veugen, 

Utrecht 1979)

1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bc4 Nd7 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Ng5+ and Black will lose the 

Queen or get mated (Lusgin - Joffe, Minsk 1968)

1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bc4 Bg4? 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Ng5+ Ke8 6.Qxg4 Nf6?? 7.Qe6 

Qd7 8.Qf7+ Kd8 9.Ne6+ Kc8 10.Nxf8 (Miannay - Brunneay, Torcy 1991)

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.f4 d6 5.Be2 Qb6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Na4 Qa5+ 8.c3 

b5 wins the Knight (Hallier - Fegebank, Germany 1991)

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Bc4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.e5 dxe5 7.dxe5 Ng4 

8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.Ng5+ Kg8 10.Qd5+, leading to mate (Sylvan - Flaata, 

Copenhagen 1994)

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.c4 Bg4 5.Be2 Nc6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nxe5 dxe5 

8.Bxg4 exd4 9.Bf4 h5 10.Be2?? [10.Bf3 had to be played] 10…d3 and Black 

threatens 11…Bxb2 (Seltzer - A. Ivanov, Philadelphia 1993)

1.e4 g6 2.d4 f5? 3.exf5 gxf5?? 4.Qh5 mate (Sternenberg - Russo, Sacramento 

1993)

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.Bc4 Ngf6 6.e5 dxe5 7.dxe5 Nh5 

8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.Ng5+ Kg8 10.Qd5 Kf8 11.Qf7 mate (Cheron - Polikier, 

Chamonix 1927)