Either in your first steps as a chess player, especially when playing against.
Other plants have just started playing chess.
It is popular to set each other traps, so you're testing each other's use of traps.
And for example, if your opponent played evil and you played it fine, they might play Quidditch five.
Now, if you routinely move here to attack the queen, you just fallen into a trap.
This is an important trap to be aware of.
If you play games, you've fallen into a trap and they can actually take care checking your king.
And that's pretty annoying because actually no rocks falling off the boards.
They might think, wow, it's so easy to lose a rock and a game of chess, but hopefully you learn from
that game and next time they play Queen H5, you might do something more sensible and you might actually
protect this pawn.
And they then play this.
And your next move is again, you're too keen to attack the queen.
And they play this move and you're in checkmate and you think, ouch.
But you learn from this trap and you know how to avoid it and protect against that.
So in your next game, after at some point, hopefully you haven't given up chess by this point.
See positive mindset.
Yeah, you need a growth mindset.
So hopefully you're learning from each game and you realize actually what they're doing is not the use
of the queen to attack the soft spot.
F7 So you shilled the soft spot and there are a lot of traps to learn in this section.
So you play me like Queen Elizabeth and in fact.
You avoided that trap, and in fact, there's a benefit here, you can achieve peace hitting their queen
if they're not careful, you know, they're about to lose their queen.
I have to move their queen.
Right.
Are you going to take their queen and they move their queen off they go.
Hey, you can actually finally move to attack the queen again.
They go all the way back here.
You've actually got very good position.
Even though the bushes blocked in, you can now play move like this desex, I would say, in this section
to save you this process of trying out all of these traps or being the victim of traps.
You can learn all the traps, the major traps, quite a lot of the major traps, at least in this section.
These are pitfalls.
So you need to know how to avoid them.
And if you want, you can playfully set them for opponents at your level.
Just be aware, though, the strong you get, CHESSELL stronger the opponents.
The openings need to be as sound as possible generally in that they shouldn't incur a big disadvantage
to you.
They should not have a big downside.
And yes, downside is one of my favorite words, if you check out my tactics, of course, I use downsides
a great deal of the time.
You don't want to incur downsides.
Your whole scalability as a chess player to be able to play stronger and stronger opponents means that,
yeah, you should be with less downsides of the opening, however subtle those might be.
So anyway, in your first steps, beware.
As part of the fun of learning chess, you'll be falling into traps.
Fine.
Just try and learn how to avoid falling into them.
Or you could be saying and that's also fine.
Have some fun winning games like that.
But just be aware, the stronger the opponents you will face, the less you should be setting traps.
Unless it's, say, a bullet time show, which I really love.
I do love.
For example, if they play like this, the so-called Konkan, I do like trying to get a quick win when
they play this.
I like playing the move queening turn.
You see this trap in the section that if they routinely play this because the time that they might guess
what you play here and you've won the game, can you see?
96, Jack, so, yeah, factor in the time control as well, and how much damage is actually done to
your position?
I happen to know and I have checked with, you know, top engines that actually Queen Ito is not such
a bad move at all.
In fact, you know, even if they don't fall straight into the trap and allow you this chat, mate is
checking the king, that is.
This is actually a checkmate because that Paul is pinned to the king.
It's not legal a move to take that.
So that is actually checkmate.
But even if they bypass the trap on this occasion, let's say they play this, you know, you're going
to be slightly better because actually they've got hemmed in Bischof and so be aware.
You know, sometimes you can play kind of traps which don't actually ruin your position and actually
can do something about this.
Up here.
You can think Catamount, but Jita is a thing.
It was I like to call sometimes when Chatto because it sounds a little bit better.
Yes.
If you follow the Oxford English Dictionary, you can say it, find chatter.
You don't have to say Feehan Catoe, by the way, that's personal preference.
But yeah, the Italian way is more thing.
Catoe OK.
But here anyway, the major point is you can play Trappes and you can keep playing Trappes even when
you become more experienced, especially at the fast time controls and especially when the traps don't
cause irreversible damage to your possession.
So traps are there for your fun, entertainment and learning experience, especially in your early stages.
And if you want to like give a boost, your early learning of Trappe awareness, then work through the
traps in this section and maybe see the underlying tactical like ideas that make traps work or don't
work.
So it is also equipping you from a tactical perspective.
We need to be good tactically in chess to be able to win the majority of our games.
Teichmann once said.
Chess is 99 percent tactics, which, although a major exaggeration, is a very, very important part
of the game to be a tactical monster as soon as you can.
And I mean that in a good way.
Being a tactical monster will enable you to win more games than you lose as soon as you can become a
tactical monster.
So do try a lot of the the position that you see in this course.
Take them very seriously, try and work them out as far as possible in your head to practice your visualization
like Baphomet.
But anyway, the main point is this section is all about trap awareness.
You need to be able to avoid the traps, punisher traps and set the traps.
There's a lot of fun to be had in the section.
I hope you enjoy it and so much.