Chess Opening Traps You Must Know

17 Lessons

Learn how to trap your opponent and how to avoid traps! Use a few of these traps on your opponents and win games!

This course is about Chess Traps! Sometimes there are moves, which appear to be following good principles but are bad for specific tactical reasons. You make ordinary developing moves, but then you find yourself being trapped and your opponent getting advantage. In this course I show a few traps that you should know not to be trapped!

Of course, it's not possible to demonstrate all the possible opening mistakes here, but I tried to list the most popular ones. There are a number mistakes commonly made by beginners and novices in the opening stages of the game and I will show how to react to them.

This course consists of 15 lectures. In every lecture I cover a certain trap. Some traps are good and you can apply them during the games, other are bad and I demonstrate them only for you to learn how not to get trapped, if your opponent tries to outwit you.

I designed this course for beginners and club players with FIDE rating from 1200 to 1700. But if you don’t have FIDE rating, this is not a problem and it shouldn’t stop you from taking this course. Learn them from this course!

After finishing this course, you will learn some of the traps and may apply them during your games. I believe you will improve your performance!

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all future additional lectures, game examples
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Course Promo

Promo Chess Opening Traps You Must Know.mp4

Preview

Chapter 1. Intro for Opening traps you must know.mp4

Chapter 2. Good Trap.mp4

Chapter 3. Bad Trap (Legal Mate).mp4

Chapter 4. Stick to Basic Principles.mp4

Chapter 5.2..f6.mp4

Chapter 6.Kings Gambit.mp4

Chapter 7. French Defense Tarrasch Variation.mp4

Chapter 8. d6 (Philidor or Pirc).mp4

Chapter 9. Russian Game (Petroff Defense).mp4

Chapter 10. Traps in Philidor Defense.mp4

Chapter 11. 2 Knights Defense.mp4

Chapter 12. Italian Game Grecos Attack.mp4

Chapter 13. French Defense Advance Variation.mp4

Chapter 14. Caro-Kann Defense Magnus Carlsen Blundered.mp4

Chapter 15. Nd4 in Italian Game.mp4

Chapter 16. Jobava Attack.mp4

After the course you will...

Know 15 basic traps in popular openings
Know how not to be trapped
Learn what good and bad traps are
Learn common tactical motifs which can lead to a trap

Hi! I’m FM Viktor Neustroev

Experienced chess coach specializing in tactics and openings. An author of educational chess courses.

I’m playing chess since the age of 5, and after getting a Master's Degree in Economics at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) I realized that I want to connect my professional life with chess.

Currently I am teaching chess online and offline, working with both juniors and adults. Almost all of my students were ranked. I also coached the champion of Siberia among girls under the age of 9!