Chess Opening Traps for Beginners. Fool's mate

The Fool's mate, also known as the "two-move checkmate", is the quickest possible checkmate.

1.f3 e5 2.g4 Qh4#

Chess Opening Traps for Beginners. Two Knights Defense

There is a simple way to win every time if your opponent mirrors all your moves exactly.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 d6 7.Bg5 Bg4 8.Nd5 Nd4 9.Bxf6 Bxf3 10.Qd2 Qd7

11.Ne7+ Kh8 12.Bxg7+ Kxg7 13.Qg5+ Kh8 14.Qf6#

Tournament 6th Belgrade open - ultrafast games has finished.
Winners:
1st place: deniswilson (1754) - 17 pts.
2nd place: heavyd68 (1448) - 14 pts.
3rd place: munja100 (1628) - 13 pts.

Here is one of my games in this tournament.

heavyd68 (1569) vs DenisWilson (1473)
6th Belgrade open - ultrafast games, http://www.gameknot.com/, 2008

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 dxc4 4.Bxc4 Bf5? 5.Qb3! 1-0

How to catch a queen? Positive experience!

DenisWilson (1727) vs andrzejb (1665)
1700's Tournament, http://www.gameknot.com/, 2008

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Qe2?!



One of my favorite moves against lower ratings opponents. I would like to get unknown positions where my opponent could make some mistakes. 3...Nc6 4.c3 Bc5 5.Nf3 d6 6.O-O O-O 7.h3



I moved h3 to control g4-square. I wouldn't like the staying black knight or bishop on g4. 7...Nh5? First mistake! Black planed to move Ng3 and won my rook. The shortcoming of this move was that my queen e2 and his knight h5 were in same diagonal. And I had a small combination to take the center. 8.d4! exd4 9.cxd4 Bb6 (9...Bxd4 10.Nxd4 Nxd4 11.Qxh5 Nc2 12.Qe2 Nxa1 13.Nc3, Be3 and Rxa1) 10.a3 I would like to move b4 and develop my bishop on b2. 10...Be6?



He thought that he set good trap for me. But....11.d5! Ng3 12.Qd3 Nxf1 13.Qxf1 Bxd5 14.Bxd5 Nd4



It was found that the trap was not good. Well... What to do? I had two strong bishops. But my queenside was not developed. I didn't like 15.Bxb7 because it didn't develop my queenside. My plan was to organize attack on the kingside. And also I set a little trap. 15.Nc3 Nxf3 He was trapped!!! 16.gxf3 c6 17.Ba2 Qf6 18.Qg2



My idea was to open g-file. Kingside is attacked by two bishops and queen g2 on open g-file. It's very strong attack. Bd4 9.Bg5 Qg6 20.Rd1 c5?



Mistake! This move gave my knight very important square d5. Better 20...Bf6. 21.Nd5 I would like to fork by knight on e7. 21...Kh8? It protected from Ne7...But... 22.Nf4



Catastrophe!!! Queen was catched!
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There are pictures of children's chess tournament in Russia.

Children are playing chess...


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