List of chess traps

The term chess trap refers to a move which may tempt the opponent to play a losing move.

List of chess traps

Ordered by chess opening:

• Albin Countergambit: Lasker Trap
• Blackmar-Diemer Gambit: Halosar Trap
• Bogo-Indian Defence: Monticelli Trap
• Budapest Gambit: Kieninger Trap
• Italian Game: Blackburne Shilling Gambit
• Petrov's Defence: Marshall Trap
• Philidor Defence: Légal Trap
• Queen's Gambit Declined:
  • Elephant Trap
  • Rubinstein Trap
• Ruy Lopez:
  • Mortimer Trap
  • Noah's Ark Trap
  • Tarrasch Trap
• Sicilian Defence:
  • Magnus Smith Trap
  • Siberian Trap
• Vienna Gambit: Würzburger Trap

Many more opening traps, all ending in checkmate, are given under Checkmates in the opening.

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