Either in this lecture on the show you one of the more naughty tramps, if you really want to set a
trap for the unsuspecting opponents, you might have.
So your opponent plays it for you.
Play 85, 93, 96, Bishop B5, you play the Berlin defense.
This is actually a respectable opening.
In fact, one of the legends of the game, Vladimir Kramnik, took down Garry Kasparov for this opening.
It's very, very respectable nowadays.
And if we plays the free hair, black plays a move here, which is extremely naughty in fact.
So this move was played by Mortimer and unfortunately for him, in the four times he played it, this
isn't a good advert.
He lost every single game.
He lost all four games.
And you might be wondering, Kings Crusher, why are you showing this trap then by Mortimer?
Well, you know, they didn't have blitz chess, did they?
Back then there wasn't the Internet.
You know, chess is evolving along with technology.
The faster and faster time trolls.
This might actually have a killer application, even if it didn't have in the past where Mortimer was
playing it.
You know, he was born in 1842.
You know, he lived until 1911.
You know, back then there was though into that.
Yeah, perish the thought.
But yeah, when he played C7, his opponents, they looked at this point.
But, you know, they had a lot of time on their clock to think something might be up here and they
cautiously bypassed the trap.
You know, they were like predator, you know, that film The Predator bypasses the trap.
Unfortunately, here, we can't force them to play the trap into the trap.
So, you know, might see free, for example, doesn't take the pawn.
Kosslyn doesn't take the pawn.
But if they do take the form, then you're in luck.
Yeah, you're in luck here.
So why aren't you here?
Has the king in the center?
And if nothing else, there's an inside head that's.
It's another example of the art of war in chess that the good fighter puts themselves beyond the fate
before going on the attack.
In chess terms, that's like active operations is beyond the Kingston Center.
Is this an active operation?
Yes.
Can it backfire?
Because the Kingston Center actually, yes.
Black plays CSX and.
The thing is, C6 is a very naughty move and features in other traps as well, you see, this is a kind
of trap pattern.
The Cambridge Springs.
Is this queen like coming out and here?
Yeah, the queen's coming out for a bite to eat when I check.
Ouch.
For whites is we've just won a piece.
Yeah, it's it's a clever contraption.
It's unfortunate for most of it that they all bypassed this trap.
If you get this situation, this is just the piece up.
They can play 94.
You covered Desex and you're going to be fine soon.
As well as being a piece up, you're going to be able to castle queen side.
I'd recommend to be taking out the controversy as an example continuation.
But essentially you've just won a piece from from here with this queen, a five track hitting the king,
which wasn't beyond the castles.
So you're exploiting that king and you're making the opponents one of the pawn backfire, then you might
ask.
Hold on.
Are there any other tricks I should be aware of before I play this?
Yes.
My C4 is not the track that won't can try.
And you shouldn't be so quick here to take the bishop if you do.
Ouch.
96 is Chameides.
It's a smart checkmate.
So safety points slightly or safety point.
Just play a move like desex or ninety-six.
Both of these moves they serve to cover these things critically.
So desex is probably one of the easier to play, like it's easier to play stuff because we're also putting
the brakes on E5.
So it's easier to play this.
And the thing is, we're still in big trouble.
If a fall, then be five and we're winning a piece with an advantage.
So, yes, you know, generally, you know, we've won a piece here that's very, very pleasant.
So unfortunately for Mortimer, it didn't work out, but it could work out in all games for sure on
these fourth tournaments that we play.
So to recap, so C6 and it doesn't matter if the bishop goes here or here.
The fundamental point remains about a five track picking up the only five.
So what's to be aware of is four.
You just want to cover this or this, but I'd prefer in terms of easy to planers desex.
So you're waiting for that bishop to drop by B5.
So, yes, the Maltzman trap.
It's good to be aware of this, especially from the perspective that's the board, we definitely don't
want to take the pawn, just castle just.
Very easy way of bypassing the whole thing.
And it's a philosophical point here.
A deep philosophical points generally want to counsel early in chess because it was because of because
of potential disasters like you or King being checked.
And when you win material, it's like as a side effect of winning material.
Instead, you are creating undefended, unprotected pieces, and especially in games of players, less
than 200, quite often tactically, especially on the fourth time, trolls, a major cause of winning
or losing games are unprotected pieces.
And you certainly don't want not only an annotated piece, but your kingdom, the center.
So the moment the trap, you know, represents these issues in a concrete form.
So just castling put yourself beyond the feet before active operations.
That can't be reinforced enough as a major opening principle and philosophy.
So if you do go gobbling material, think about what you're doing, you're creating theoretical downsides,
the distance between a theoretical downside like no threat to peace or King Center and reality is not.
As large as you might think or hope for.
As this shows, C6 ouch, the unprotected peace and the king in the center both exploited fundamentally,
if you think about a check to the king, unprotected peace drops off.
OK, I hope that's clear.
The antidote on this occasion is simply just castle, this castle.
OK, let's much.