Hi there.
In this lecture, we're going to have a look at the so-called elephant trap.
So say you do venture to play the Queen's Gambit because you're inspired by the Queen's Gambit Netflix
series and actually do want to play the Queen's Gambit.
So he played C they Peepli ESX Night Zeferino Essex, you play Bishop G5 and they play like BD seven
and you might be thinking, hold on, can't I just win a pawn here.
So you play C takes it takes you think the NetSpend.
And this is also very, very good example that sometimes you can't trust the so-called relative Penns.
This is a bunch of Peng's, it's my pen against the Queen.
So it seems as though you might be able to play this 1965.
But this is a mistake.
Black Jazz plays 1965.
You might think, well, you're winning the queen.
That's true.
So you win the queen.
But there's a backfire with your king in the center.
There's a backfire here.
You haven't put yourself beyond the face.
So when you don't get your king, you know, safely Carseldine, you indulge in active operations.
You can often expect backfires.
And there is a big one before track.
You have to expose your queen.
And Black is just winning a piece, basically black and even just take her, leaving that pin in place
and Black's piece up.
If, for example, you know, queen size, we can see that black has one to three minor pieces or two
and the two rocks, we just factor in the rocks.
Black space up here.
You've invested two pieces here to win the queen.
If you think about it, you dropped a piece here, so one piece and then the eight bishop so Black can
afford to give one piece back like it, even just take her.
That's all so strong immediately and then take her.
You can see Black has three minor pieces for your two.
So one of the more fundamental points about this trap is not trust in the so-called reality pens.
You need to be on the lookout in chess for options to be a tactical monster, which I hope you all become,
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It will be a great way for you to really appreciate chess from a tactical perspective.
If you can know things like this, that the relative pin, there are options.
You know, it's not as if black.
It's not as if this is an illegal move, anything which is not an illegal move, if it was the king,
it would be an absolute pin.
If it was a king on the act, which is not the light could not move.
But chess is such that you've got to consider all the options.
So, yes, this trap kind of is very nifty to win a piece.
It's worth knowing about.
We can look at it from the black perspective.
If you want to play against an unsuspecting opponent, it doesn't compromise the position.
In fact, in setting this trap, you're going to see, does it actually damage your position to actually
set it up?
Not so.
Actually, this is a position which is pretty standard.
And in fact, you know, if it doesn't play 1985, then you've still got a fairly decent classic position.
There's a move like CSX had to reinforce D5 now and you can carry on with development.
It's a decent enough position.
You haven't actually compromised your position if you're playing this trap with the black pieces.
So it seems, you know, this move is asking whites to test this D5.
So very interesting to be aware of how both sides don't fall into it.
And if you want to have fun setting it there where it doesn't actually compromise your position.
So even against my strong opponents later, this is still a legitimate opening actually in its own right
to play, OK.
That's how much.