An attempt to attract one’s opponent into a line of play which should be advantageous by hoping for miscalculation or little care of the position. The most famous traps are the Blackburne trap, Lasker trap, Rubinstein trap, etc.
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Quotes of the Day
School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there.
Robert Fischer 1961
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.
Robert Fischer 1971
My relation with Korchnoi depends on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
Anatoly Karpov 2005
