morning all I like to continue my series
on chess traps by looking at a world for
potential chess traps in what is known
as the Queens gambit which is not really
a gambit so it really sets the scene
psychologically for the opponent being
tempted to play losing moves which is
the essence of trying to trap the
opponent so when you play d4 a lot of
you may play d4 I never actually play d4
but if you did any opponent replies
classically with d5 if you play c4
you're not really gambling the pawn
because it's quite well known that if
black tries to cling on to the pawn the
black do real damage to his or her
position and it's actually demonstrates
something a more fundamental idea
actually from the art of war that you
really shouldn't go on to the attack
until you first put yourself beyond
defeat and here if black really takes
this poem thinking that this is a gambit
so I kind of just take this pawn now
White has a very very cautious move
trying to regain material with III and
him if black really thinks this is a
gamete then the psychology of the trap
has been set so black might want to try
and cling on to the pawn in two ways at
least Bishop e6 is not very good it ends
in this Bishop White's best is not
trying to win the pawn now but rather to
play positionally for example Knight to
f3 and black if you want the right the
king side for example might f6 and try
and do something about this bishop now
on f8 now here white is going a big
advantage with Knight g5 which is
attacking that Bishop threatening
probably two double pawns win the
valuable bishop and for example Bishop
d5 we now have efore and this is not
very pleasant at all for black if the
bishop goes back to c6 then we can just
take on c4 so that's not very adequate
this Bishop e6 is awkward it's blocking
in this Bishop on f8 White's best is
just to naturally develop both knights
and aim for Knight g5
but another tempting way of clinging on
to this pawn on c4 it to play b5 now you
might think well what has the Art of War
principle got to do here but we have
here black trying to do something quite
a ambitious and ambitious operation of
holding on to the pawn but there's
actually fundamentally liabilities here
black is not beyond defeat here but he's
trying to do something quite active
these pieces are vulnerable the rook and
the knight here and it's giving white
potential undermining now of these pawns
and there's a very very key move here to
undermine this pawn chain which echoes
pawn change generally that to make it
collapse you try and undermine the pawn
chain and it's exploitable base so here
a four tries to undermine this pawn
chain quickly and to get all of these
liabilities these unprotected pieces
this is very very difficult for black to
do anything about a sinks well we just
play a tanks and black can't apply here
because we just lose that rook so that
shows that rook on a eight it's not yet
protected if only black had bishop b7
then that would have worked black is not
beyond defeat these are tactical
liabilities and you might think well
hold on can plant not just place c6
let's try c6 well this is not good as
well remember these these are tactical
liabilities amputated pieces a times B C
times B and can you spot what white can
play here to exploit the a8 rook if I
give you 10 seconds starting from now
yep I hope you guess their Queen f-free
and it's very very difficult for black
not to lose material here he's forcibly
losing material my thing okay hold on
hold on
surely black can try and cling on to
this pawn chain by making the bishop
kind of form part of the virtual pawn
chain with Bishop d7 this again can have
terribly about consequences for black
the key thing is a takes B Bishop takes
b5 and now the crushing move for white
the absolutely crushing move the most
crushing move is night C free especially
if black is really desperate to cling on
to this c4 pawn blacks best is just to
get out of here with bishop c6 or Bishop
d7 in Bishop c6 but if black really
wants to cling on to the poor now with
Bishop a sex there's an absolute crusher
of a move here I wonder if you can spot
it there's actually two moves which give
quite a huge huge advantage one is more
incisive though than the other so what
is the most incisive way to exploit
blacks slight tactical liabilities here
if I give you ten seconds here
okay the most incisive way is again this
Queen f3 care trying to shield the
Brooke doesn't work if c6
can you guess what white plays in this
position I give you ten seconds here
okay white displays rook takes c6
winning loads of material winning a
whole bishop because if black dares take
then Queen takes c6 check how
embarrassing Queen d7 meters take this
rook will check and when you can even
come back to eat the night like this
horrible horrible horrible and funny
enough oh there's another way here to
exploit like as well but this is the
most crushing button is also rook takes
a sense just for the record because
Knight takes a6 we can win two pieces
for rook but clearly it's not as strong
as the Queen a free continuation we've
only won two pieces for the rug but we
are getting c4 it is a crushing
advantage but the most crushing is Queen
f3 which is the most embarrassing for
blacks whole clinging on to the pawn
strategy here Queen f3 absolutely
decisive if the night bite moves for the
Queen to protect the rook then we just
play rook takes a6 it just shows the art
of war principle that you can't really
try and do active operations until you
put yourself beyond defeat and here the
concrete aspect of that is these kind of
loose pieces which can be exploited if
that's try to cling on to this c4 pawn
so this is fundamental trap territory a
wealth of trap territory and one is a
very very simple kind of Miss named
opening really it's not really a gambit
the whole thing is not really a gambit
because because white is getting back
the pawn on this back wants to really
really damage his position in the way
it's just shown so I hope you got
something from that comments or
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