Opening Tricks

Here you'll find some very useful tricks and traps to set for your opponents in the opening. It's a lot of fun when they fall for them!

Overview:

Volume I:

Greco smashes Damiano's Defence

Greco-s QGA-Trick

A Queen for a King

Alekhine's Smothered Mate

Discovering Queen (©SRT)

Volume II:

De Legal's Mate

The Wandering Bishop

Removing the Defender

Tre Mot En

Trapped in the Centre

Volume III:

Discovered at Home (©SRT)

Discovered by Knight (©SRT)

The Elephant Trap

The Giraffe Trap (©SRT)

The Lasker Trap

Volume IV:

Noah's Ark

The Magnus Smith Trap

The Siberian Trap

Teed's Trick

The Marshall Trap

Volume V:

The Rubinstein Trap

The Mortimer Trap

Tarrasch Trap 1

Tarrasch Trap 2

Three Knights of Fun (©SRT)

Volume VI:

Diagonal Mate

Weak Spot Attack

The Monticelli Trap

The Englund Trap

The Blackburn Shilling Gambit

Volume VII:

The Kieninger Trap

The Halosar Trap

The Wurzburger Trap

Reti's Mate

Volume VIII

Reversed Opera