700 Chess Traps

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Bill Wall

King’s Gambit Declined (1.e4 e5 2.f4 without 2…exf4)

1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.fxe5 Qh4+ 4.Ke2 Qxe4 mate (Tchineoff - Maillard, Paris 1925) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.d4 Bb6 6.Bd3 wins a piece (Fischer - Straight, Houston 1964) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3 Nf6 5.fxe5 dxe5 6.Nxe5 Nxe4 7.Qa4+ c6 8.Qxe4 wins a piece (DeJonge - Vedenina, Bratislava 1993) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.fxe5?? [3.d3] 3…Qh4+ 4.g3 Qxe4+ 5.Qe2 Qxh1 wins the Rook (Boldman - Jansson, 1937) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.f5? [3.d3] 3…Qh4+ and White loses. If 4.g3 Qxe4+ and 5...Qxh1. If 4.Ke2 Qxe4+ and 5...Qxf5+. (Norlin - Guraj, Sweden 1974) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 exf4 5.Bc4 Qh4 6.g3 fxg3 7.Qe2 g2+ 8.Kd1 gxh1=Q 9.Nf6+ Kd8 10.Qe8 mate (Sanders - Unknown, NY 1910) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 c6 4.Qe2 cxd5 5.Qxe5+ Be7 6.Qxg7?? Bf6 winning the Queen (Unknown - Gedult, Paris 1981) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qd8 5.Qe2 c6 6.Qxe5+ Be7 7.Qxg7? [a poison pawn. White is better after 7.Bc4] 7…Bf6 8.Qg3 Bh4, pinning the Queen and King (D. Evans - Wall, Guam 1974) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nc3 Qe6 5.Nf3 exf4+ 6.Kf2 Bd6?? [perhaps best is 6…Bd7] 7.Bb5+ threatening 8.Re1, pinning the Queen (Saxton Darting, 1936) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.d3 Bb4 6.Bd2 O-O 7.dxe4 Re8 8.Bd3 Page 52


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